Border Cao Order

In the autumn of the first year of Qingli, the Song Dynasty was at war with Xia Dynasty. The city of Yanzhou was in danger, food and grass were in short supply, and the crossbows were running out. An expedited imperial edict fell on the shoulders of Chen Yan, a ninth-level official in the water transport case of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Affairs. Within fifteen days, thousands of stones of grain and grass, and fifty sets of crossbow accessories were transported from Bianliang to Yanzhou, thousands of miles away. Anyone who missed the military schedule would be implicated in the death penalty. There are no transfer orders, no supplies, only the boss passing the buck, the powerful causing trouble, and the subordinates extorting money. The Water Transport Department demanded bribes and made things difficult, the playboy Zhang Cheng acted recklessly, the porters extorted wages, and the weapons supervisor pushed and delayed. Under layers of oppression, Chen Yan, bearing the lives of his family and the hope of the frontier army, joined the situation. The Bianhe River is turbulent, the mountainous route is dangerous, bandits are around, and the time limit is like a knife. A humble official, with an old canal transport account, struggling in a desperate situation between the chaos in the court and the beacon smoke at the frontier, a thousand-mile water transport that risked his life, and a legend of troubled times that hides the sadness and resilience of the underlying people, has since begun.