The Southern Song’s Number One Remonstrator

In the eighth year of Shaoxing, Song and Jin stand opposed, and the political climate is bleak. Amid these turbulent times, Chen Shou becomes the most cost-conscious censor in the Great Song. Others risk death through remonstrance to make a name for themselves in the annals of history. He risks death because he genuinely hates wasting the copper coins spent on buying chicken blood. Every time he charges headfirst into a pillar, he wonders whether the cost of the collision will earn him enough reward money from His Majesty to make it worthwhile. Zhao Gou regards him as a shameless rogue, Qin Hui hates him to the depths of his soul, and the officials of the entire court avoid him as if he were a snake or a scorpion.