The Troubled Times of the Sixteen Kingdoms: Golden Arms and Iron Horses

Since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, China's history of nearly three thousand years has been a history of division, reunification, re-division and re-unification. As the saying goes, "The general trend of the world is that if it is divided for a long time, it will be united, and if it is united for a long time, it will be divided!" Every time there is a period of division, it will be a chaotic world. War raged and bones lay everywhere. However, when it comes to troubled times, people will think of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, the late Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty... In fact, there was a period of the darkest and most chaotic period in history that is not necessarily well-known to people. This period is generally called the "Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty", and is also known as the "Five Husbands and Chaos in China". This book is based on the background of Wuhuluan, and tells the story of a series of heroic and iron horses in the hundred years from Fu Jian's southern invasion to the establishment of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In terms of narrative, this book also cleverly adopts a two-line narrative method in the first two chapters. One line uses Liu Yu, the protagonist of the book, as a clue to tell the story of how he grew from a "little gangster" on the streets to a generation of heroes in the turbulent society; the other line tells the story of major events that happened in the north during the same period of Liu Yu's growth stages. After the third chapter, Liu Yu's Northern Expedition begins, and the two lines will be combined into one line to write. Liu Yu's magnificent life is like what Xin Qiji wrote in his poem, "The grass and trees in the setting sun, the ordinary alleys, where the slaves of humanity once lived. I think of those days when the warriors were fierce and powerful, and they could swallow thousands of miles like a tiger." This is where the title of this book comes from.