During the Xiantong period, all that was left of the Tang Dynasty was a false sense of prosperity, and famine swept across the prefectures and counties.
Military general Pei Xingzhou was ordered to encircle and suppress the rebellious people. The moment the sword was unsheathed, he saw clearly that the so-called rebels were just common people who were desperate because of hunger.
The military orders are like mountains to kill the rebellious people, but the conscience cannot bear to slaughter the common people.
He took off his armor and bid farewell to the military camp, walking alone in the troubled times, traveling through the devastated mountains and rivers of Datang.
As a garrison general of the Tang Dynasty, my sword should have been used to kill foreign enemies, but instead it was swung at starving civilians.
The people were weeding to survive, and I was ordered to quell the chaos, but I still couldn't drop the long sword in my hand.
Not wanting to stain my hands with the blood of innocent refugees, I abandoned my official position and traveled far away to witness with my own eyes the suffering hidden under the prosperity of the late Tang Dynasty.
