Zhao Yan, a graduate student in military history, woke up and became the deposed prince in the last years of the Dayong Dynasty. The court is divided, the border troops are corrupt, refugees are everywhere, and Beidi is watching. Relying on historical prediction and modern management skills, he started from the bottom of the border army garrison, recruited Duan Hengshan and other powerful generals, combined with the financial network of businesswoman Su Mujun, and even formed an alliance with Princess Helian Tiehua of Beidi. Under siege from powerful ministers, foreign enemies, and famine, Zhao Yan gradually tore apart the iron curtain of troubled times, trying to put the broken mountains and rivers back together into a unified empire.