In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the death knell of the late Ming Dynasty had already begun to ring.
The rebels in Shaanxi had spread into Shanxi, the tribes of the grasslands were on the verge of being conquered by the Later Jin, and Khan Ligdan in Guihua City lived in constant fear.
Before dealing with threats within, one must first repel those from without.
Zhao Rui was reborn in the body of a young scholar in Datong Prefecture. He neither joined a rebellion nor dreamed of helping Chongzhen turn the tide. Instead, he chose to build a city on the grasslands, recruit refugees to cultivate wasteland and mine, gradually annex the tribes, and prevent the Later Jin cavalry from taking a detour through the passes to raid the land.
