Luoshui Looking East

As a descendant of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Liu Qiu walked among the old and new dignitaries under the great aura of his master Zhang Tianshi. Among them were the glitz and greed of the Luoyang gentry, and the resistance of the Wu gentry, his descendants from the southeast. As the heir to the last Duke of Shanyang, he had to face not only the cavalry of the Xianbei people in northern Xinjiang, but also the power lust and scheming among the Central Plains dignitaries, as well as the legendary huge interests on the sea and the almost forgotten Soochow navy. He was constantly pushed forward in the historical torrent of the Western Jin Dynasty for decades, and finally found his own direction in the troubled times. When the Central Plains fell, he maintained the remaining lineage of the Sima family in the south of the Yangtze River, and helped start the century-old Eastern Jin Dynasty.