White Robes Rule the Nation

The realm had only just been pacified when the Mongols counterattacked. The vassal princes were powerless to resist, and three provinces fell in an instant! Countless people across the provinces were killed or wounded, and rivers ran red with blood. At this moment, with the realm shattered, a young man in white burst onto the scene. He reclaimed lost lands, protected refugees, marched beyond the Great Wall, and watered his horses on the wilderness. His achievements would be celebrated for a thousand ages! Yet on the day his victorious army returned, news of the young man in white's death spread throughout the nation. The emperor posthumously bestowed upon him the title of Marquis of White Robes and granted him a tomb built to the standards of a prince. The entire nation mourned, and all grieved as one! Only a wastrel from Changzhou, gazing at the Marquis of White Robes' statue, quietly shook his head...