Postmaster in Troubled Times: a Broken Post Connects the World

In the last years of Dasheng, post roads were cut off, food prices soared, and refugees were everywhere. On the day when Kuliu Station was abolished, Chen Du, a young postman, received a train ticket that could not be delayed. Whenever he actually takes on an errand, three signs of failure will flash before his eyes: the horse falls first, the bridge breaks first, the well dries up first, and the grain cart sinks into the flood without rain. It only told Chen Du where it was broken first, but never told him who made the move. So he started with a dilapidated post, an old horse and eighteen standing households, built ditches, found official horses, guard grain trucks, drove old ferries, made contracts, gathered caravans, and reconnected sections of dead ends. The powerful set up checkpoints, grain merchants swallowed grain, and military towns intercepted shipments. The old dynasty always wanted to use the weakest people to fill the roads. Chen Du wanted to make the world's food, people, trust and soldiers move again. If a post is connected, a county will be prosperous. The seven posts form a line and can be fought over in troubled times.