Introduction to "The Beggar Emperor's Storm in Lin'an":
In Shaoding, the Southern Song Dynasty, there was an undercurrent of power struggle in the court, traitors secretly liaising with the Jin State, the Beggar Clan was divided internally, and the Jingyi Sect relied on the powerful and had liaisons with foreign enemies. The court and the world have long been woven into a sinister web of cannibalism.
Xiao Jingchen, a top border scout, was framed and wronged. He was expelled from the military camp and ended up on the streets of Lin'an, becoming a starving beggar. At the gate of Fengxue City, the old beggar said: "I won't break up the gang until I freeze to death", sowing the seeds for him to join the game.
He seems to be down and out, but in fact he has a deep understanding of the city and knows how to organize it. Instead of relying on brute force to fight hard, he lurks and endures as a beggar, and secretly sees through all the stakes among the factions in the court, the hidden lines of the Jin State, and the internal struggles of the beggar gang.
He established the three iron rules of "fighting against gold, helping the poor, and punishing", and gathered a lot of strangers in the world, such as think tanks who can't use soldiers, spies with many faces, abacus masters life accounts, and hidden swordsmen. They do not rely on force to crush, but rely on step-by-step planning: forging letters to destroy perjury, using power to alienate the powerful, using ledgers to leverage the court, and setting up a dark network to lock up the money-trafficking insider.
He lays out the chess game in silence and controls the world in the marketplace. Using the refugees from the Beggar Clan as spies, using the Cao Pier as a chessboard, and taking advantage of the infighting among the powerful, they uncovered layer by layer the long-standing gold conspiracy of the Prime Minister, and uncovered a series of insiders hiding in the dark.
A down-and-out beggar does not enter the court, but he is able to strategize.
He did not rely on military power or dignitaries, but only relied on a pair of wise eyes and a strategist to stir up the storm in Lin'an. He used the rules of the Beggar Clan to defeat the court's treacherous plots and suppressed the court's sycophants with his body of commoners.
In the chess game of troubled times, he holds the pieces and makes the moves;
The rivers, lakes and temples are all under his calculations.
