Where the Flames of War End, Chang'an

"Where the Beacon Smoke Ends is Chang'an" In the second year of Liang Taiqing's reign, Hou Jing's Rebellion broke out. After his father died in his country, 13-year-old Wei Chengyan fled Jiankang with Xiao Mingyi, the orphan of Prince Zhaoming, and fled to Yiyang at the junction of north and south. He has no army, no food and grass, only dozens of troops and the "Shou Zheng Inkstone" passed down by his grandfather. Starting from a small fort, he devoted his life to ending the three hundred years of chaos in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. But this is not just a story about a hero conquering the world. The reason why the Northern and Southern Dynasties were in chaos for three hundred years was essentially the violent collision between farming civilization and nomadic civilization. The final answer given by history is "Chineseization" - at the cost of countless lives and civilization achievements being reduced to ashes. The original intention of writing this book was to explore another possibility: if the Han civilization took the initiative to open its arms and accept the more enterprising elements of the nomadic civilization—the martial spirit of the grasslands, the efficient military organization, and the openness to new things—could the troubled times end early? Wei Chengyan is following a "righteous" path: keeping the foundation of Han civilization while actively absorbing the nutrients of nomadic civilization. He was not restoring the old order but creating a new civilization that had the best of both worlds. Where the flames of war end is Chang'an - that light is never far away, but in the hands of everyone who is willing to refuel in the darkness.