Iron-blooded And Residual Brightness

In the late Ming Dynasty, Spain and Japan gradually restricted the outflow of silver. The Ming Dynasty's capital inflow since the early sixteenth century had been reversed. The Ming Dynasty's coexisting commodity economy and small-scale peasant economy suffered the impact of deflation at the same time. Combined with the influence of Xiao Glacier, the dominoes of the troubled times continue to fall one after another. In November of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the rogue bandits crossed the Mianchi River southward, bursting out like ulcers and sweeping across the Central Plains. In the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Hou Jin army, which had been raging in the north for more than ten years, swept across Xuanda, and it was like entering an uninhabited land. The Ming Dynasty, which had been in existence for nearly three hundred years, was in turmoil. The protagonist arrives at this time and becomes a small slave in Tongcheng County, South Zhili. The story begins with a dead mouse rising into the sky.