The Mystery of Emperor Xiaowen's Biological Mother and Father
by Yingyong
About This Novel
One afternoon in early August in the 14th year of Taihe (AD 490), a young man was sitting on a bed facing the wall just north of the Taihua Hall of the Imperial Palace in Pingcheng (today's Datong City, Shanxi Province). He wears a black jacket with narrow sleeves, black trousers with wide waist and crotch, high-heeled black boots, a crimson quilt around his waist, and a black tiger-skin hat with a pointed top on his head. There are braids more than a foot long trailing behind his head, and his angular facial features and whole His face was as if it were carved, with a dark complexion and erect brows. His dark brown eyes shot out bright, cone-like light. The memorial in his hand moved up and down, and he secretly screamed in his heart: Uncle, how dare you disobey my edict and take bribes and pervert the law? This person is Tuoba Hong, the sixth emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty (the abbreviation of Wei State in the Northern and Southern Dynasties), known as Emperor Xiaowen in history. He is a Xianbei tribesman. He is 23 years old and has been in charge for nine years.
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