In 1937, the artillery fire at Marco Polo Bridge shattered the scholar's dream. Zhao Yonghe, a prominent family member in Baoding, burned all his ancestral classics and plunged into the bloody rivers and lakes of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei. Using an abacus as a gun and silver dollars as bullets, he weaved an underground economic network spanning three provinces under the eyes of the enemy. Four hundred martyrs fought secretly for eight years, turning medicines, steel, and food into blood vessels that poured into the Taihang Mountains. When the final game was entered, not only the ambition of the enemy chieftain was destroyed under the ruins, but also the clearest name of a scholar. Gold flows silently, mountains and rivers bear witness.
