In the autumn of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the capital fell, and a large number of refugees from the north of the Yangtze River crossed the Yangtze River to the south.
Shen Yanzhi, a 20-year-old scholar, did not want to stay in his study and talk about benevolence and righteousness, so he drafted a relief charter for borrowing grain from the joint guarantee and paying interest with work. He traveled among the gentry, the government, and the refugees, trying to use a contract to prop up a place of shelter in troubled times.
After encountering obstacles, gambling, and compromising, he tried his best to promote the joint protection of Jingkou Township. After a piece of paper fell, he took the grain and headed north to Jiangdu, stepping into the whirlpool of Jiangbei's war and the shogunate's intrigues.
This is the story of an ordinary scholar struggling to survive in the collapse era.
