1949, Huaihai battlefield. Major Chen Zhenhua of the National Army fell down the hillside during the retreat, knocking away a memory that should not have appeared in his mind - the entire history of the next fifty years.
He saw every wrong path he took in his life: which jungle hid the minefields left by the Japanese army, which British abandoned arsenal still contained four Bren machine guns, and which indigenous tribe leader would be beheaded by his brother in February next year.
He also saw a border that never existed.
This time, he won't make a mistake.
Starting from fifty-three defeated soldiers in the jungle, starting from a box of sulfa powder and a half-abandoned colonial stronghold, he would spend fifty years in the equatorial jungle of Southeast Asia to create a new country recognized by the great powers from scratch.
There is no system, no ability. The only weapon is a brain filled with fifty years of global political map.
When colonial officer Hadley wrote "strength unknown" on the file, he did not know that these four words would be revised to "Father of the Nation" on the day of his retirement.
