Chapter 1: Letter from Martial Saint Mountain

In the blink of two years, the New Union that dominated the western part of Longzhou flourished at a jaw-dropping pace. Under Tang Zhi's guiding principle of mutual aid among clans in face of natural disasters, the New Union propagated its reputation of benevolence throughout the West with a strategy of peaceful transition and treating the people well. This attracted countless refugees and declining nobility to view the cities administered by the New Union along both banks of the Lingjiang in Longxi as a haven to take refuge in.