The Ups and Downs of the Great Xia Dynasty: Commoner Zaifu

In the 312th year of the Great Xia calendar, the capital fell. On the night when the Eight Great Enemies burned down the imperial city, Chen Zicheng, a lecturer at the Hanlin Academy, rolled out of the sea of ​​fire with "Records of Taizu" in his arms. Half of his face was burned. He knelt outside Zhengyang Gate, watching eight different flags placed on the city gate tower, and listening to more than three languages ​​laughing wildly on the city wall. The comrades beside him pulled him: "Quickly leave! The city is broken!" But he leaned over and picked up a half-page fragment from the scorched earth - it was the first article of the "Twelve Articles of Instruction to Ministers" written by Emperor Taizu when he founded the country: "When a countryman encounters me, a countryman will repay me." This year, he was thirty-seven years old, and he was just a poor official of the seventh grade. Twenty years later, he will be the first prime minister to be granted the title of lord in civilian clothes in this empire in three hundred years. He will hold the most elite army in the world and have power over the government and the public. But it was he who personally signed the last humiliating treaty of this empire. Before he died, he said to his eldest son: "I have only done one thing in my life - let this damn country live for twenty more years." History books call him "the first famous minister of ZTE". Folks call him "Chen Shatou". In his own diary, there is only one sentence: "Another scale fell off today, which hurts my heart deeply. However, the national crisis is not over yet, how can I dare to express my pain?"