Diary of Juxianlou

In the thirty-fifth year of Wanli's reign, water transportation was covered by a shady situation - King Fu swallowed grain, tax supervisors robbed wealth, and the Liu family business had liaisons with Japanese pirates. No one in the whole court dared to speak out. Chen Mo, a young boy from the countryside, went to Juxian Tower in the capital with his cousin's broken note. He only wanted to chop firewood and make a living, but he discovered a shocking secret: shopkeeper Zhou's jade ring finger contained tribute from the previous dynasty, Sanniang's kitchen house was filled with water transport codes, and Mr. Su's abacus beads were all filled with black accounts of corruption among officials. A blue cloth diary records the whips of the tax supervisor, the blood and tears of the embroiderer, and the testimony of the fishermen; a group of low-level people use account books as knives and needlework as armor to challenge the powerful Liu family and King Fu in the cold winter. When the blood-soaked "secret account of water transportation" was handed over to the emperor, and the moment Zhu Pi said "the people are the foundation of the country" fell, Chen Mo understood: Juxian Tower is never a restaurant, but a platform of justice for the people of the world; those crooked account pages are the real country!