The Associate Affairs Department is located outside the six ministries and specializes in errands that the ministries do not want to get involved with. Cheng Bingqian has worked here for many years. All they deal with are old bad debts and errands - losses that the Ministry of War is unwilling to check, old debts that the Ministry of Revenue is too lazy to pursue, and trivial matters that the Ministry of Rites is inconvenient to come forward for. His way of life is simple: don't meddle, don't talk too much, don't check too much.
That winter, the Ministry of Rites sent an errand. The Ryukyu delegation came to Beijing, and the number of people was three times greater than in previous years. The Associate Secretary was asked to go to Fuzhou to persuade them. He went and uncovered a smuggling operation and touched something he shouldn't have touched. He stopped, closed the case, and returned to Beijing alive. The boss retired and returned home, and ran away quickly. The new leader doesn't care about anything. Cheng Bingqian took a newly transferred soldier and continued to deal with those bad things that no one wanted to touch. Xiao Bing was nineteen years old and had been kicked around until he reached the Associate Affairs Department. Cheng Bingqian taught him to investigate cases, teach him to read people, and teach him to survive in this terrible place. Another errand has fallen through. The case was not investigated, but Xiao Bing died. In order to take revenge, he continued to investigate the truth that he should not have investigated. He found people he shouldn't have investigated, provoked forces he shouldn't have provoked, and found that he was already in the middle of the game and had no way out. The ant in the Associate Affairs Department has been crawling for more than ten years and finally crawled into a net. At the other end of the net was something he never expected to see.
Purpose: To write about the difficulties of small people at the bottom, accidentally breaking into the big web of conspiracy, and watching how ants bring down the superiors.