Striving in the Southern Song Dynasty

The year was 1210 AD, the third year of the Jiading era under the Southern Song. That year, the great poet Lu You passed away after leaving behind his final poem, “To My Sons.” That year, the peach-blossom-faced Yang Miaozhen, the Fourth Lady, was wielding her peerless pear-blossom spear in the north. That year, the infamous chancellor Shi Miyuan had seized complete control of the court. That year, only one year remained before the Mongols began their first assault on the Jin dynasty. That year, the crisis caused by the sharp depreciation of paper money was deepening. That year, Jiang Mu arrived.