Old Stories of Young Miao: Ten Years of a Northern Song Official

During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Chen Shizhou was appointed magistrate of Yifeng County, which he held for ten years. Caught between the old and new party struggles, he uses the wisdom of "inside and outside" to deal with the officialdom and the people. He not only has to deal with Sun's secret calculations, but also needs to understand the people's livelihood. Even when the government was overturned, he always stood by his side and wrote a ten-year history of grassroots scholar-bureaucrats through compromise and perseverance.