Overall overview
This novel is set in the Northern Song Dynasty, with the Qingli New Deal as the foreshadowing, and Wang Anshi's Reform as the main line. It describes the profound impact that conservatives and reformers had on the politics, economy, military, and culture of the Northern Song Dynasty during the fierce party struggle due to their different positions and different ideas. It intersperses with descriptions of the rise and fall of the world, and focuses on depicting the conflicts and grievances between the aristocracy and the poor in a specific society. In this chapter, the human heart, human nature, life and human instincts of great men and ordinary people are gradually revealed in a sincere and sobering way, using events as warnings and profound insights. It also expresses it more emphatically, making people realize that honesty is the basis in the contradiction between right and wrong; in the struggle between hot and cold, it makes people know how to respect the ordinary, and at the same time, it strives to guide the world to open up the spiritual realm!