Liang Song: Count All over the World

The seed of this novel is a "what if" What would happen if Confucianism was not the one standing at the center of the stage at the end of China's feudal society? I thought of Mohism - a school of thought that has disappeared for two thousand years. Many ideas of Mohism were ahead of its time and ahead of our imagination. That hidden thread that has been annihilated by history - pragmatism, technological thinking, and chivalrous spirit. But history did not choose Mohism. The Mo family was broken. So I thought, what if it continues? If at the end of the Ming Dynasty, in that dark age when the imperial power was at its most exclusive, the bureaucracy was at its most corrupt, the gentry was at its most greedy, and the eunuchs and Donglin were fighting endlessly, there were still a group of people who still remembered the rules of the Mohist family, kept the Mohist technique, and inherited the chivalrous style, what would they do? So there was Zhou Muzhi. He is not a time traveler, has no system, and has no golden finger. He is just a former Hanlin editor who was demoted for seventeen years. But he is also a giant of the Mohist family - not born, but selected, tested, and tortured. His growth narrative is the main line of this book. He took a group of accountants, craftsmen, rangers, and even scientists who represented the pinnacle of social skills, and set out from Qianzhou to Beijing to settle the world's accounts. This book is not a cool novel, nor a time travel, nor a system. It is a story about how idealism walks in the mud, and how a group of people forgotten by history try to change history. If you also believe that ordinary people can sustain an era - then this story is for you.