Ember Notes

All the well-dressed guests in the dynasty are man-eating dogs. Since heaven and earth are both blind, just watch the embers burn into frost. In the fifteenth year of the Yuanhe period of the Great Zhao Dynasty, there was a severe drought and the red land was thousands of miles away. In the imperial city, hundreds of officials burned the finest agarwood, used gold paper worth more than five lives, and recited the cannibal lie of "Heaven tests the faithful" for God. Outside the imperial city, people died of hunger everywhere. In order to monopolize half a barrel of yellow mud water, the squire smashed the life-saving water tanker. In exchange for the tax-free chastity arch, the clan brought out the red crane crown that sealed its throat after seeing blood. This is a world where paper is more valuable than life and rules can kill people. Until the four defective products crushed by Dazhao gears, with their own unresolved hearts, collided together in an abandoned thatched cottage with air leakage: An old official from the seventh grade who had copied official documents for thirty years scratched the emperor's memorial document with a bald pen; A peerless madman who was deprived of his fame used strong wine and cinnabar to paint the skulls of nobles throughout the dynasty; A widow who memorized the "Dazhao Law" cut off her long hair and used strict laws to reversely strangle the greedy clan; A low-level blacksmith with a broken leg uses extremely cold metal gears to strike against the absurdity of heavenly beings' induction. They do not have peerless martial arts skills that can split mountains and rocks, nor do they have a savior who descends from the sky. They just lit a weak fire in the black rain that froze their bones and blood, and wrote an "Ember Note" that records arithmetic, laws, accounts and the blood and tears of the people. The mortal body will eventually be crushed by the millstone of history, but the fire will eventually burn through this decadent winter. (This is based on the late Ming Dynasty, and the protagonist is set with reference to historical figures)