In the late Southern Song Dynasty, the scholar Shen Huaimo was demoted to Lingnan because of his poems that satirized the powerful. On the way back, the Yuan army went south, and the mountains and rivers were broken. He had no power to restrain a chicken, but relied on his wisdom in writing to save refugees, protect classics, and deceive the pursuers.
In the cracks of troubled times, he dealt with the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty, the generals of the Yuan Army and the heroes of the Green Forest. He originally wanted to live in seclusion and write books, but was forced to form a rebel army. He used pen and ink as a blade and strategy as a weapon to protect a party's cultural heritage in the iron-blooded era.
When the city was finally destroyed, he chose to burn his manuscripts to clarify his will, but after a fire, he discovered that the true integrity of a scholar is not to die as a martyr, but to keep the fire of civilization alive.
Content introduction
This is the story of how a literary man used a pen to deal with the whole world in the worst of times.
Shen Huaimo does not know martial arts or the art of war. He only has a stubborn head and a belly full of poems and books. When the sword conquered everything, he used poetry to awaken people's hearts; when tyranny was rampant, he used pen and ink to record the truth.
This is not a traditional gifted scholar and beautiful lady, but an intellectual's survival, struggle and transcendence under extreme difficulties. Discussion of the novel: When civilization encounters barbarism, what can a pen do?
Core contradiction: How the "useless use" of literati becomes the sharpest weapon in troubled times.
