Paper Burial of Ming Dynasty

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, the north wind struck the bones. This seemingly indestructible giant building of the Ming Dynasty is actually wailing between the hollow beams and columns. Shen Buyan, a low-level captain in Fusi, Jinyiwei North Town, is responsible for guarding the mountains of imperial prison files. He originally planned to live a miserable life in this man-eating yamen, until he found a "fake book" in the ashes that shouldn't exist - what was recorded on it was actually a large-scale massacre that had been erased twenty years ago. As the investigation deepened, he discovered that the enemies defined by history books as "bandits" and "established slaves" seemed to know the capital's defenses, food and even the emperor's secrets. In the deepest part of the Forbidden City, Dongchang and the cabinet are engaged in a power purge that is more bloody than the battlefield. When history books are all lies, the truth becomes the only rebellion. Shen Buyan not only has to face the weapons all over the world, but also faces the ultimate mystery hidden in the fog of history: Is the crooked-necked tree in Meishan the end of the Ming Dynasty or the starting point of another bigger conspiracy? This is a novel about forgetting, memory and redemption. Here, no one is innocent, and no one can escape unscathed.