In the fifteenth year of Yan Yuanfeng's reign, an urgent report from the border reached the capital: the Beiyuan Army was wiped out, the commander Chen Shang was killed in battle, and the whereabouts of his daughter Chen Moyu was unknown. In the same year, there was a flood in the south of the Yangtze River. Sixteen counties had no harvest. More than half of the relief money was stolen. Seventeen scholars who wrote letters to express their opinions were killed in front of Chengtian Gate.
This year, Li Zidingxiang, a student of Imperial College, was punished with twenty canes and expelled from the capital for writing an allegorical poem on the wall of the Imperial College.
No one thought that these three unrelated events would converge into a storm that swept the court and the world three years later. No one thought that the Kuang Sheng who was expelled from Imperial College, the run-of-the-mill young man who was wandering the streets, or the orphan of the former Beiyuan Army who was wanted by the whole city would become the center of this storm.
When the five major officials in the capital were still fighting to the death for the position of Minister of Household Affairs, they didn't know that——
Someone rummaged through 17 bones in a mass grave in the western suburbs, just to piece together the truth.
Some people spend a lot of money in teahouses and restaurants just to weave a net.
Someone was sharpening a knife on a snowy night. The name of the knife was "Qingtan".
Intention: The spirit of youth is an irreplaceable thing