The Record of Asking for Orders from the Capital

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, modern content editor Chen Guan traveled to the capital city of the late Ming Dynasty and became a poor and failed scholar. He doesn't know how to make guns and steel, and he can't save the world. His only resource is to remember some upcoming catastrophes and endings. In order to survive, he opened a fortune-telling parlor outside Xuanwu Gate, called Zhizhizhai. Ask about wealth and disaster, not about future. He took advantage of historical information gaps such as the Kaifeng flood irrigation and the Qing army's entry into the fortress, and gradually transformed from a strange scholar that no one cared about to "Mr. Chen" who was sought after by merchants, gentry, and officials in the capital. In front of others, he wore a white Taoist robe and cherished his words as if they were gold, as if he were an immortal. Behind others, he counted his silver, ate roast chicken, and watched incense to pass the time. He knew that he was not an immortal, but he had just seen more endings than others. Chen Guan originally wanted to take advantage of the situation to protect himself and go south to avoid disaster before the fall of Beijing. But he saved a child who was supposed to die on the road, and when he saw a Chongzhen who was trapped in the throne, he gradually understood: the so-called neutrality often just regards the death of others as history. As the end of Meishan approaches step by step, he must choose: keep his information advantage and watch the Ming Dynasty fall; or smash the certain future with his own hands and save the emperor who is destined to die.