In the 13th year of Kangxi's reign, the Three Feudatories rose up and the world was shaken. On the surface, the Qing Dynasty controls Kyushu, and the Eight Banners cavalry dominates the world; secretly, the encirclement of Jiangnan continues, hair is shaved like a knife, escape laws, surrender laws, and literary prisons are intensified, and tens of thousands of Han people are struggling to survive in hunger, slavery, and humiliation.
Shen Yan, a graduate student in modern Ming and Qing history and a retired military reserve, once traveled through time and possessed the body of a Han scholar in Changzhou who was exterminated. His father was beheaded, his mother died in humiliation, his brother was made a military slave, the family home was burned down, and he was burdened with blood debt. He originally just wanted to survive, first crawl out of this murderous situation, and then find the murderer and pay back the debt one by one.
But when he really walked into Jiangnan during the Kangxi period, he discovered that the Shen family's blood feud was never an isolated case. The land was enclosed to seize the fields, the refugees blocked the roads, those who shaved their heads lived, and those who did not died; women from good families were taken into slavery, Han soldiers in the green camp were reduced to hawks and dogs, and all the scholars who made the slightest grievance were executed. The world is rotten to the core, and one person's revenge can never be fully avenged.
As a result, Shen Yan went from a desperado to a leader who gathered miserable people; from an orphan who only wanted revenge, to a person who wanted to find a way out for the Han people in the world. He collected refugees, rescued slaves, gathered rebels, started fires in the Jingxiang Mountains, fought fiercely in the Central Plains, and finally uprooted the tyranny that was weighing on everyone.
This is not a frivolous heroic legend, but a story about a group of people who stood up in the mud, blood, and hunger, fighting for a glimmer of light with their bones and tears.
