In the first month of the first year of Jianlong, it snowed heavily. Outside Chenqiaoyi, an army was camping. No one knows that after one night, the world will change their names.
Businessman Chen Jingyu runs a silk and satin shop in Bianliang, and just wants to live a stable life, but he is involved in the turmoil on the trade route; Han Dingyuan, a general of the Forbidden Army, holds a long gun in his hand, witnesses the yellow robe on him, and struggles between loyalty and ideals...
From the Chenqiao Mutiny to the Yashan Naval Battle, three hundred and nineteen years were turbulent. This is not the history of the emperor, but the story of thousands of little people.