Nanguan is also a prisoner. The red lacquer gate is among the nine tins. Outside the door, hungry bones whine, and inside, everyone is a prisoner. The sound of the gavel ringed, and the lingering sound echoed through the beams. There are many spectators in the audience, but the storyteller on the stage is mute. As everyone knows, there are no storytellers, everyone is in the story, and everyone is outside the story. Parting or joining, no sadness or joy, just a story.
The main line of this article is political struggle and party struggle, and the background timeline is from the reign of Zhezong Shaosheng (Yuanfu) of the Northern Song Dynasty to before Huizong Chongning. The main emotional line is of course between the male protagonists, and the other emotional lines will develop along with time and party struggles, so the emotional progress is slow-paced. By the way, Song Zhezong was a rare and talented emperor in the Northern Song Dynasty. His political and military methods were very tough and he was not afraid of the Liao and Xia Dynasties. Unfortunately, he died at a young age and his life was quite short. If Zhezong had not died prematurely, the Northern Song Dynasty might have been in a different situation.