This book tells the story of a modern soul who has been crushed once by the torrent of history. In the more cruel old times, how he used his cautious modern common sense to fight against an almost fatal despair. It is not a story about a hero "how to grow from weak to strong", but a story about a mortal "how to stand on a battlefield doomed to failure". When all the time-travelers are thinking about becoming a prince and becoming a prime minister, the background of the protagonist Zhao Xu is this proposition: Does a person who knows the ending of history still have the courage to rewrite the beginning? The tone is a complex mix of pathos and grit. The desolation comes from his prophetic understanding of the pain points of the nation's destiny, and the tenacity comes from the weed-like survival instinct honed from the bottom of society. The book contains the heroic spirit of fighting and iron horses, but the background is as cold as the autumn wind, and there is no cheap sense of refreshment. Every gasp and every victory is dug out of the mud.
