The first volume of The Heavenly Snail Chronicles follows the Song clan, led by Song Qiyu, through their winding struggle to serve the state, fight the Rouran, build their influence, explore and put ideas into practice, quell internal strife, and save the people from suffering, ultimately achieving their goal of transforming the political system and making the nation rich and strong.
The second volume of The Heavenly Snail Chronicles focuses on the reforms to the nation led by King Gongyi. Through laws, improved institutions, military reform, public education, and welfare, he leads China to cast off many of its traditional evils and usher in a glorious age. In this vast, imagined world, people care for their elders as well as their own parents, and raise other people's children as well as their own. The elderly have a dignified end, the able-bodied are put to use, the young are nurtured, and the widowed, the childless, the orphaned, the elderly without children, and the disabled all receive support. An ideal world awaits within The Heavenly Snail Chronicles, Volume Two.
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The Turbulent Tang
The Carefree Young Noble