Detective Dee Renjie: the Maze Case

During the reign of Wu Zhou and Shengli, the government and the opposition seemed peaceful, but in fact it was a check and balance chess game set up by Wu Zetian. The Queen promoted poor families, suppressed established families, and used clans, relatives, and aristocratic families to restrain and consume each other, thereby consolidating the imperial power and dictatorship. She disintegrated the family line and reformed the government, not to seek justice for the people, but to turn the world's power into a pawn of centralized power. She spent her whole life only for the stability of the emperor, not the peace of the world. Di Renjie has already penetrated this illusion of prosperity. He and the empress both suppressed the clans and promoted talented people, but their moral values ​​were completely at odds with each other: Wu Zetian broke down the clans in order to centralize power and retain power; Di Renjie broke through the confusion in order to serve as the greatest public servant in the world. In the first volume, "Lanfang Lonely City", he put down the Sui Yi rebellion outside Xiao Xuance Pass, uncovered the traitors in the household clan, eliminated the restoration forces that were colluding with both internal and external parties, and cut off the scourge of the previous dynasty that connected the government and the opposition. In the second volume, "Borrowing a Sword to Confuse the City", he went deep into the century-old ancient square in the west city of the divine capital, uncovered underground labyrinths and clan lynching cases, dismantled the private power system of the old Guanlong clan that had been entrenched in the capital for several generations, and saw clearly that he had long been reduced to a sharp blade for the emperor to reshuffle the clans. In the third volume, "The Family Returns to Ashes," the remnants of the old clans scattered across the world join forces with Wu's relatives to fight back, in an attempt to kill good officials from poor families and restart the family's dictatorship. Di Renjie tried his best to end the old system of bloodline superiority that had lasted for thousands of years. But the cycle of history never ends. The clan never really dies, it just changes its clothes and reincarnates from generation to generation. The thousand-year labyrinth built by imperial power and circles has never dissipated. The peace and justice Di Renjie has been pursuing all his life are, after all, just a spark of innocence that is hard to stay in the long cycle of troubled times.