Starting a Business in the Late Southern Song Dynasty

The Zhao and Song dynasties fled in embarrassment and survived until the late autumn of Baoyou's third year. In the autumn of this year, there were only three years left before the Mengge Khan personally conquered Sichuan and Shu and launched a full-scale southward invasion. There were still twelve years left before the bloody siege of Xiangfan. There were only twenty-four years left before the cliffs were crossed over the sea and the Song Dynasty was destroyed. Also in the autumn of this year, the officials and ministers of Lin'an were still intoxicated in the peaceful singing and dancing of the West Lake, fighting crickets, feasting and singing, and being obsessed with party disputes in the court. However, the Mongolian cavalry in the southwest hinterland have already broken through the Jianmen Pass and went south to massacre villages and plunder the land every year. There is no rooster crow for thousands of miles in Sichuan, Sichuan and Jingxiang, and the bones are exposed in the wild. At the beginning of the month, Mongolian cavalry crossed the Qujiang River and headed south. Nine of the ten villages along the river were deserted. The defeated troops and refugees fled to Hezhou, and the Tartar troops pointed directly at Diaoyu City. At the same time, the Liemian River on the Jialing River has become a slaughterhouse for Shura. A young man in ragged clothes opened his eyes. He struggled to push away the body on his body, and his eyes were full of bloody purgatory. This was the third year of Baoyou in the Southern Song Dynasty. The palace city of Lin'an was still brightly lit, but half of the country south of the Yangtze River was already a hell on earth. Our story begins in this blood-soaked riverside village in the late autumn of this year.