The most ruthless game of chess in the Song Dynasty was played for three hundred years.
Those who created the situation are trapped in the situation of their own making. Those who break the situation find that they are breaking their own path. The people in the endgame are not even chess pieces.
After a drink, the general handed over his military power. With a decree, the literati guarded the world for him. But this system that protected the Song Dynasty for three hundred years was also trapped for three hundred years——
Zhao Kuangyin, who released his military power over a glass of wine, created a situation that he could not control; Zhao Pu, who had no fame, designed a system that valued fame the most; Cao Bin, who was the most capable of fighting, lived a life that was least like a general; Zhao, who was the shadow of the candle and the sound of the axe, Guangyi used the system to make up for his lack of legitimacy; Lu Mengzheng, who walked out of the cold kiln, was picked up and tied up by the system; Kou Zhun, who pulled on the dragon robe, spoke out boldly but was thrown away; the flattering Wang Qinruo was used up and despised...
Military generals had to hand over their military power to achieve a happy ending, civil servants were picked up by the system and tied up by the system, those who dared to speak were used up and thrown away, and flatterers were used up and despised - under the civil service system of the Song Dynasty, there were no winners.
There is a character in each article, connected by hidden threads. What you see is not the story of one person, but how a system turns everyone into its parts - including the person who created the system.