The Grand Chronicle of the Nation

During the Dacheng era, on the border wastelands, there was a hunter named Xiong Lie. At seventeen, he crawled out alive from a wolf den of twenty or thirty wolves. From then on, few things in this world could take his life. But there were also few things he could take—a leaky wooden cabin, an old mother abandoned by his father, and a hunter's household, barely held together. He used business tactics for war, war tactics for solving cases, and case-solving tactics for officialdom—from a border ruffian to the leader of the Qingsha Gang, to a border army general, to the commandant of Suzhou, to the General of the Northern Pacification, and finally, to a position that determined the rise and fall of the nation. He faced the blades of Black Wind Fort, the ledgers of the Qingsha Gang, the national policy of changing rice to mulberry, the dark dealings of the Weaving Bureau, and the iron hooves of the Xiongnu's entire army pressing on the border. Until that snowy night, he picked up three homeless women in succession: Lin Fu, carried back from a mountain gully; A Mo, embraced from the snow; and Shen Yunjin, a fur merchant who had kept a three-year widowhood in town. He turned every obstacle into a stepping stone upward. Trade routes were reopened by his hand, city-states swore blood alliances before him, and the frontier was stabilized because of him. This is the epic of a hunter and the chronicle of an era. — Description from novelcodex.org