Daxia Endgame

At the end of the Great Xia Dynasty, the mountains and rivers will collapse. In the Forbidden City in the late Wanli period, eunuchs were in power and party disputes were raging. The Mongolian cavalry and the Eight Jurchen Banners at the border gates were knocking at the gate at the same time. The refugees rose up in rebellion. The military system of the guard station had long been in decay. The old dynasty is like a leaky ship that may capsize at any time. Xiao Ran, a young upstart from a poor family, is a Jinshi, but with his extraordinary strategizing, he secretly weaves an intelligence network covering both the government and the public; General Murong Lie, the tiger son of the general, is the God of Killing in Northern Xinjiang. He is proficient in firearms, chariot camps and mandarin duck formations, but he is repeatedly hampered by the court and has his military merits taken away. The eldest princess Li Wan, the sharpest sword in the royal family, is in charge of the palace secret spies and part of the imperial army; Ye Qingshuang, a former female secret agent of Dongchang Factory, is skilled in swordsmanship and firecrackers, and she travels between rivers and lakes and prisons. The four of them were supposed to be natural enemies—— Civil servants and generals are suspicious of each other, and princesses and assassins have their own agendas. However, in the bloody palace coups, border battles, and rogue bandits' sieges, they were forced to form a life-and-death alliance. They join forces to cleanse eunuchs, drive a wedge between barbarians, use firearms to break formations, and instigate rebels, but they also step by step towards the final showdown at the pinnacle of power: Are you clinging to the old dynasty? Or change the world? Is it inside the literary master or outside the military master? Or is it a dead end? Thirty years of strategizing like chess, thirty years of bloodshed on the battlefield. When the sound of cannons outside Beijing is shaking, and when secret edicts are issued frequently inside the Forbidden City, The four finally discovered—— The one who can really decide the fate of Daxia has never been the emperor, but themselves. This is a truly profound novel about the Machiavellian war of Ming Dynasty. There is no Holy Mother, no Wu Nao, and no Dragon Aotian. Every betrayal, every rebellion, and every bloody battle strictly follows the real system, tactics, criminal laws, and espionage of the Ming Dynasty.