Traveling South and Returning North

The period from Duanping to Xiangxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1236-1279) was the most tragic end of the dynasty in Chinese history. The Mongolian cavalry swept across Europe and Asia, and the Southern Song Dynasty settled on the left side of the Yangtze River. Civil and military affairs were out of order, and loyalists and traitors were divided. A scholar, in the last forty-three years when the empire collapsed, went from a poor student to the desperate situation of carrying a young emperor across the sea. The protagonist Lu Xiufu (1236-1279), courtesy name Junshi, was a native of Yancheng, Chuzhou. He was orphaned at the age of three and moved with his mother. He had few literary names. In the first year of Jingding, he and Wen Tianxiang were awarded Jinshi together. He was a tough guy, not good at flattering people, he had three ups and downs in his life, and eventually died for his country. This story unfolds according to Lu Xiufu's life with two lines of light and dark. The light line revolves around the promotion and changes in the officialdom, and the dark line unfolds with the continuous mission. A total of six volumes with 100 chapters.