Five Hundred and Sixty-Two Years

King Zhou You's beacon-fire play on the princes squandered the strength of the Zhou royal family. When Huansheng, who had been burdened with suffering since the moment he was born, went on a crusade against the princes, he did not expect that an era of princes competing for hegemony had begun. When the young master Xiaobai was shot by Guan Zhong with an arrow, he would not have thought that this man would be a wise prime minister who would assist him in dominating the Central Plains in the future. When Chong'er, the prince of the Jin Dynasty, left for a foreign country, he would not have thought that nineteen years later he would return to the place where his dream began. When Duke Mu of Qin had no hope of conquering the Central Plains, he would not have thought that his mission was in the west. When Duke Xiang of Jin continued the hegemony of Duke Wen of Jin, he would not have thought that God only gave him seven years. When Zhao Shui brought Zhao Dun back from Di, he would not have thought that this would be the prelude to the carving up of Jin. History has no voice, but people who read history can have a voice.