At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, war broke out. Shi Le, a young man from the Jie tribe, came from a humble background. His family fell into decline in his early years, and he encountered war and famine. He was robbed and sold into slavery by Sima Teng, the governor of Bingzhou, and he experienced a humiliating life of slavery. He later escaped and became a commoner, met Ji Sang, and took advantage of the Eight Kings Rebellion to raise an army. After failing to establish his own empire, he sought refuge with the Huns and Han King Liu Yuan. With his outstanding military talent and political foresight, he accumulated strength in troubled times. He had a keen eye and valued counselor Zhang Bin, set up a "gentleman camp" to recruit talented people, conquered the east and west to expand territory, and used strategies to defeat powerful enemies. Finally, he broke with Han and Zhao, established the Later Zhao, unified the north, and ascended the throne as emperor. After proclaiming himself emperor, he imitated the Central Plains system and reformed the official system, established schools, revised laws, and paid attention to agriculture and mulberry trees, creating a short-lived prosperous era in the Later Zhao Dynasty. However, in his later years, due to the benevolence of the crown prince and the ambition of his nephew Shi Hu, and after Shi Le's death, the Later Zhao Dynasty fell into civil strife, and the legendary hegemony finally became a thing of the past. The whole book takes Shi Le's life trajectory as the main line, restores the troubled times of the conflict between Hu and Han in the late Western Jin Dynasty, and shows the legendary journey of a slave who counterattacked and became an emperor.
