Broken Blade: the Legend of Liu Song's Master Clothes

During the Liu and Song Dynasties in the Southern Dynasty, the imperial power collapsed and Jiankang City was bloody. In order to find his sister who was sold into the palace, Hanmin Shouji stepped into the palace alone and became the humblest slave. Under the bloody rule of two generations of tyrants, Liu Ziye and Liu Yu, he managed to survive through cracks and was drawn into a whirlpool of secret fights and palace killings. Liu Ziye was cruel and cruel, massacred the clan, killed important ministers, and turned the court into a hell on earth. Shou Ji witnessed the joint assassination by the nobles and the bloodshed in the palace. In order to survive and find his relatives, he was forced to take up the sword and became the key person to rewrite the history of Liu Song - personally killing the deposed emperor Liu Ziye. Once the regicide shocked the world, Shou Jizhi rose from a Han slave to a hero, but immediately became the assassin of the new emperor Liu Yu. He lost his true nature in his climb to power, and turned from a survivor into a bloodthirsty sword-wielder. He walked through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but he could never escape the control of the emperor's power. The imperial power of the Liu Song Dynasty has always been weak, and all the heroes were abandoned sons. Liu Yu made a lot of purges in his later years, and Shou Jizhi tried his best to climb up, and finally ended up with the bird gone and the bow hidden. Based on official history, this book panoramicly restores the power ecology of the Liu and Song dynasties and the various aspects of people's livelihood in troubled times. It uses the tragedy of the fate of the little people to tell the tragedy of the Southern Dynasty's era of "lower control of superiors". This is not a smooth counterattack legend, but the bloody life of the Han people under the imperial power, from holding the blade to breaking the blade, from struggling to destruction.