Enlightenment 1158

The year 1158, the twenty-eighth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty. In this era, the Four Great Inventions had been perfected and applied to social production. There was paper, gunpowder, the imperial examination system, science and technology, developed commerce, and a sufficient population. Social productive forces far surpassed those of the Han and Tang dynasties. Also in this era, the Jin dynasty dominated the Central Plains, the Western Xia occupied the Northwest, the Dali Kingdom occupied the Southwest, and the Southern Song Dynasty was content with its corner. In the Greater Northwest and Central Asia, the Western Liao Dynasty had not yet lost the ideal of restoring its homeland. On the vast grasslands, the Mongol tribe was slowly developing, secretly accumulating a terrifying power capable of overturning the world's pattern. How can one find a path leading to light instead of sinking in this era of great division and contention? First of all, of course, one cannot have any expectations for the Southern Song Dynasty.