In the third year of Jingyou's reign, the Song Dynasty was extremely prosperous and extremely decadent.
Under the blazing fire of Bianjing City, the air is filled with the melancholy of officials (emperors), the greed of powerful ministers, and the calculations of concubines. Spices were not only a plaything for literati, but also the most profitable lifeline of the feudal dynasty, and a carrier of conspiracy to kill people without blood.
Lu Zhihan, a "xiang slave" who was burdened with a family injustice and was at the bottom of the dock, accidentally broke into Shen Mansion, a century-old medicine store. There is no gold in his hands, only an almost miraculous control over scent.
He provoked agarwood with moss and tamed ambergris with blood.
From the gloomy "A-character Secret Treasury" in Shen Mansion, to the "Incense Confusion" in Beiwawashe, to the "suffering of all living beings" stick in front of Xuande Hall that made officials cry... Lu Zhihan used his body as a furnace and his life as incense. In the layers of red walls and the intrigues of the business war, he tore a way to the pinnacle of power.
However, when he truly became the "Number One Incense Offerer" and was given the title of "The Backbone of the Song Dynasty", he discovered that behind the strange fragrance that filled the city was actually the stench of decay that the empire was about to collapse.
Are you just going with the flow and becoming another cloud of hypocrisy in the Forbidden Garden?
Or burn yourself out and leave an everlasting fragrance for this desolate world?
