Book of North and South

Yongjia Rebellion, Luoyang fell. The sabers of the Huns cut into the Central Plains, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty was captured, and the Central Plains nobles traveled south in their clothes. A man named Director Wang stood at the bow of the boat and looked back at the burning north bank. He knew they couldn't go back. He wanted to build a new court in the south. This is the beginning of two hundred and seventy-eight years. From Wang Dao to Xie An, from Fu Jian to Liu Yu, from Tuoba Tao to Emperor Xiaowen, from Xiao Yan to Chen Qingzhi, from Er Zhurong to Gao Huan, from Yu Wentai to Hou Jing, from Yu Wenyong to Yang Jian - fifteen people, nine volumes, two hundred and seventy-eight years of troubled times. Countless people die, a few people live. Someone climbed up from the bottom and became the emperor. Some people have fought all their lives and lost to their own people. Someone led 7,000 men and attacked Luoyang. The entire army was wiped out, and only one man escaped. Someone burned 140,000 volumes of books and said, "The art of civility and martial arts ends tonight." Someone said to his son before he died: "Murong Shaozong, I left this to you." Someone stood by the Yangtze River and watched the flag on the other side change, picked up a stone and threw it into the river. Someone turned into a ghost. Some people gritted their teeth and became human beings. They are all dead. The Yangtze River is still there. The moon is still there. Some people see their whole life as a river. The moon is always silent. This is a novel about troubled times. There is no big scene, no cry of heroism. There are only people - how to climb to the top of power, how to be swallowed up by power, how to live as ghosts or humans in a world of cannibalism. From the Yongjia Rebellion to the reunification of the Sui Dynasty, 278 years.