Black Soil

In the first year of Xianfeng, Chen Jingzhi of the Chen Mansion served as a second-class palace minister, specializing in the procurement and preparation of royal medicinal meals. He had been operating in the shadow of the Forbidden City for thirty years. After a sudden thunder, the afterglow of the Forbidden City fell on the Chen Mansion of a wealthy family. Under the power of the Qing court, it gradually fell apart...