During the Great Yan Dynasty, the second prince Xiao Jin lost power due to a palace fight and was demoted to Yunyang, a bitterly cold borderland, where he became a mere seventh-rank county magistrate.
The Beirong army went south to plunder every year, and the state capital was always restricting and making things difficult. The people's livelihood in the territory was in decline, the soldiers and armor were decaying, and it was a mess as far as the eye could see.
The Liu Party in the middle of the court watched eagerly, and the Prince of the East Palace looked on coldly. No one took the fallen prince seriously, and only regarded him as an abandoned son who could be abandoned at any time.
Xiao Jin refused to accept his fate.
He brought the memory of future generations of farmers and workers to the border area, promoted high-yielding potatoes and wheat, built canals and expanded fields, recruited refugees with work-for-work relief, opened mines and smelted iron, built workshops, and built a team of rural warriors who dared to fight hard.
Rejecting the Beirong cavalry from outside, an ambush was set up at Heishikou and the enemy soldiers abandoned their armor; they fought internally with corrupt officials, tax cuts, grain deductions, impeachment and dismantling, and counterattacked all the state capital's dirty tricks.
Compound bows are made secretly, sky-shattering thunders are secretly researched, and new weapons have hidden edges and exposed flaws.
By connecting the border troops and opening up trade routes, the small county town gradually became a pearl on the fortress.
The East Palace handed over an olive branch and wanted to take it for his own use. The Xiangdang tried to get rid of it one after another with deadly moves. Xiao Jin circled between the two major forces, not taking sides or relying on each other, but silently digging the foundation deeper and deeper.
Until the prince raised his troops and rebelled, the world was in chaos and the government and the opposition were overturned.
Everyone was shocked to realize that the small city of Yunyang far away in the horizon already contained elite soldiers and supplies that could dominate the world.
Xiao Jintiwan rode the border troops southward, stepped through the smoke and clouds of the capital, quelled the rebellion of the party, and set the direction of the government. From being demoted to the seventh-level county magistrate in the border area, he stepped up to the throne of the ninth-five-level magistrate.
The wind from the border finally blew into the Jinluan Palace, and the abandoned son finally sat on the dragon throne.
