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In the first year of Xiantong, spring was very cold. In the accounting room of the Shen family, a salt merchant in Yangzhou, Shen Yan had just finished checking the last "Xianyu" sent to Chang'an when the official's iron boots crushed the begonias in front of the court. A piece of paper linked the "Xifu Salt Case" and the century-old family business was destroyed in an instant. His father died in prison and his brother was exiled to Lingnan. Shen Yan jumped into the turbid canal with half a piece of salt as a family token. When he climbed up from the lower reaches, the color of the world had changed. From then on, salt was no longer a piece of silver, but a flame of revenge, a weight of power, and... A lever to lever the empire that was about to overthrow. From the private salt wharf beside the canal to the besieged city wall of Chengdu; from the undercurrents of the court in Chang'an to the bloody battlefield in Xuzhou. Shen Yan wants to find a way out for himself and the world in the last days when the Jin Ou is about to break apart.