In 1127 AD, that is, the second year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty and the first year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty. In this year, the Northern Song Empire collapsed, and the Southern Song Empire was born amidst the ups and downs. The Chinese people have been caught in more than ten years of fierce wars and bloody storms. First, at the end of the first year, the capital of the empire fell to the enemy; entering the first month, the cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin collected all the gold and silver treasures, cultural relics, antiques, and books of ceremonial guards in the capital Bianjing; In March and April, the two emperors of our empire—Song Huizong Zhao Ji, who had been the Supreme Emperor for more than a year, and his eldest son, Song Qinzong Zhao Huan, who had only been emperor for more than a year, were all captured by the Golden Cavalry He was taken captive to the Kingdom of Jin.Also looted were more than 14,000 people in Kaifeng, including all the royal family, concubines, court ladies, civil and military officials, and craftsmen.The Northern Song Empire was destroyed.

Since then, the "Shame of Jingkang" has been carved into people's memory like a knife. Song Huizong's ninth son Kang Wang Zhaogou escaped by chance and fled to Nanjing, which is today's Shangqiu, Henan.On May 1 of that year, Zhao Gou proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtianfu, Nanjing, established the Southern Song Empire, and changed the year name from the second year of Jingkang to the first year of Jianyan.At that time Zhao Gou had just turned twenty-one years old.He became the tenth emperor of the Great Song Empire and the first emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, known as Song Gaozong in history.

This year, the situations of the characters involved in this book are different.Among them, some are considered to be responsible for everything that happened this year, and some were changed by everything that happened this year, sometimes quite radically. This year then became an unforgettable memoir of imperial politics.