During the Daoguang period, scholar Chen Jingbei entered the imperial examination and became an official, hoping to save the country with what he had learned. The Opium War broke out, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was at war, and the British and French forces closed the country... He circled in officialdom, made decisions in the war, and looked for a way out for the Chinese nation in troubled times. Fifty years of ups and downs of the family and the country, a dust-shrouded secret history of the late Qing Dynasty.
