In the winter of the forty-second year of Qi'an, the Daqi Dynasty had been established for three hundred years, and its territory spanned Asia and Europe, but it was already difficult to return. A snowstorm in Datong Prefecture left people dying of hunger all over the place, Yanran Town's cavalry knocked on the gate, Sanhe County's White Lotus Sect gathered a hundred thousand people, and in Tianque City, Emperor Qi'an had been dying for three days.
The emperor had thirty-two sons and one daughter, Zhaoning. Princess Ji Yunzhao took charge of the Tianji Palace as a woman, and took advantage of her father's remaining power to cut off the ninth prince Ji Xun's path to becoming a saint, and monopolized the imperial court. The prince was angry, and the generals put pressure on him. Everyone in the court said that the princess should be married off to eliminate the trouble.
However, Ji Yunzhao struck a blow with her backhand and shocked the world - in the name of granting marriages, she released all thirty-two princes to marry other warlords, chaebols and chieftains from all over the country. Either Zhenshuofang, governor of the south of the Yangtze River, or trapped in the south of the Lingnan. It's called marriage, but it's actually exile. Dozens of courtiers died to remonstrate, and they were all killed with sticks in front of the palace.
The princes suddenly realized that staying in the court was a dead end, so it was better to separate each other for the future. When the bells of Emperor Qi'an's death rang through Tianque City, the thirty-two princes left the capital through the wind and snow and rushed to their respective fiefdoms.
The curtain of troubled times has begun. The fledgling strategists in the world were moved upon hearing the news. What they saw was not the collapse of a dynasty, but a chessboard on which pieces could be placed. Military power, money and food, people's support, destiny - thirty-two princes, thirty-two forces, more than fifty years of conquest, in the end only one person can become the true co-owner of the world...
