In 1644, the greatest calamity in the history of Chinese civilization struck: barbarians ruled the Central Plains!
In 1629, the barbarians were still eyeing Liaodong, and the situation was dire. Meanwhile, bandits arose in Shaanxi and Shanxi, overrunning counties like a plague of locusts. Natural disasters and man-made calamities came one after another, leaving the people in dire straits. Yet at this critical moment, no one could turn the tide or prop up the crumbling empire.
A powerful army emerged in Datong, driving out the Jurchen, crushing the bandits, and fighting across the north and south, until China once again stood atop the world. Witness a transmigrator’s rise to power at the end of the Ming dynasty.
This is a historical legend told through the eyes of an ordinary man.
