The Song and Jin Dynasties have been at odds for hundreds of years, and the two jade stones have stood side by side in Jinan history. Xin Qiji and Dang Huaiying were classmates since they were young. They were equally famous when they were young. They studied the world together and had the ambition to help the world and bring peace to the people. Wan Yanliang invaded the south in a large scale, and war broke out in Shandong. The troubled times forced him to make a different choice: Xin Qiji surrendered to Geng Jing's rebel army to protect the territory and returned to the Song Dynasty.
Zhang Anguo rebelled and killed his lord, and the rebel army collapsed instantly. Xin Qiji broke into the camp alone, captured the rebel chief alive, and returned to the Song Dynasty thousands of miles away to make a name for himself in the court and the public. However, in the Southern Song Dynasty, the court was in a state of chaos and party disputes continued, and all the people who were passionate about serving the country were given a cold reception. In the second year of Longxing, the famous general Liu Qi died of illness, and the final spark of ZTE was extinguished. At the same time, Wan Yanliang was defeated and killed. The situation in the Central Plains was in chaos and the north-south pattern changed drastically. At this turning point of fate, Xin Qiji, who had been trapped for half his life, fell into a century-old dream.
In the dream, he witnessed the wasted rest of his life and the difficulty of fulfilling his ambitions. He witnessed the ups and downs of his close friend being detained in the Northern Dynasty and guarding him alone. He also saw clearly the ultimate catastrophe of the Song and Jin Dynasties, when internal strife continued, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty swept the world, and the mountains and rivers of China were destroyed. When you wake up from a dream, you can learn from the past and your destiny can be broken. Xin Qiji decided to return south for the second time and not to repeat the mistakes of history.
He abandoned the old path of empty talk about the Northern Expedition, took root in his homeland of Qilu, reformed the system, rectified farming wars, won the hearts of the people, and used a new system to break the feudal scourge. Dang Huaiying, who had different paths between the north and the south, also secretly dealt with and protected the Han people in the Central Plains. The two had a tacit understanding across the border and broke the chess game between the two dynasties. Internal and external troubles came one after another. He worked step by step, laid a solid foundation, and used institutional differences to crush the decadent old order. He finally put an end to the chaos in the north and south, regained Yanyun's homeland, ended a century of stalemate, broke China's fate of subjugation, and worked with his former classmates to protect the continuity of Kyushu's reputation.