The seven kingdoms are in dispute, the old order has collapsed, and a new order has not yet been established.
Su Mo traveled through time with a head full of historical data. He knew who would rebel, who would die in battle, and whose knees would be at the enemy's gates in three months' time. But he had no soldiers, no money, only the identity of the son of a guilty minister and a mouth.
He used speeches to turn the despair of the refugee camp into an iron army, used account books to pry the corrupt officials' granary into military pay, and used a false letter to exchange for 500 horses from the enemy King Zuoxian.
He never talks. He only drives the final nail in the logic that the other party dares not refute.
"How does language reshape reality? - Give me an audience and I will give you a lifetime of success."