The Four Extremes of Troubled Times

"The Record of the Four Extremes in Troubled Times" takes the fictional ancient China as the stage and tells the epic story of the centuries-old struggle between the four kingdoms of Liang, Yan, Qi and Yue after the collapse of the Zhou Dynasty. The iron cavalry of the Liang Kingdom wanted to regain the hegemony of their ancestors, the mixed-race heroes of the Hu and Han Dynasties in the Yan Kingdom struggled with the cracks in civilization, the gentry of the Qi Kingdom sank into drunkenness and wealth, and the Vietnamese maritime merchants used poison and fire to open up Southeast Asia. When the balance of the four poles is broken by a fire on a snowy night in Tongguan, the dead Zhou princess returns with the national jade seal, and the secrets of the government, the beacon smoke on the sea, the iron hoof of the grassland and the conspiracy of the aristocratic family are intertwined. Here are the shattered and unbent armored masks of the young emperor Chen Liaoning, Murong Feng's determination to burn the family tree amidst the sound of Hujia, the wild flames of the Yue Empress Zhang Luan driving a fire boat to burn down the Srivijaya fleet, and the shouts of the Yellow River trackers breaking down the dams of the clans with blood and tears. This is not a story about heroes saving troubled times, but a long song of struggle by millions of people under the great wheel of "destiny", using their bones as firewood and their blood as oil.