Great Song: A Thousand-Year Empire and Zhao Gou, the Art Student Who Failed the Exams

Zhao Gou awakens to the past-life memories of a failed art student. From then on, the Great Song has an honest, disciplined emperor with lofty ambitions and a fervent belief in Han supremacy.

He has barely woken up when a group of ministers around him urge him to flee south.

It brings back unpleasant memories.

So Zhao Gou forms a Gestapo out of the Imperial City Bureau and local yamen constables, purges the surrender faction around him, and makes history with what is known as the "First Night of the Broadswords"!

He also promotes loyal ministers and able generals such as Li Gang, Zong Ze, Yue Fei, and Han Shizhong.

Zhao Gou: One steamed bun costs five hundred thousand jiaozi!

We Song people are the finest people in the world!

Use the Great Song's swords and horses to win land for the Great Song's plows and oxen!

Yue Fei: "With lofty ambition, I hunger to eat the barbarians' flesh; laughing and talking, I thirst to drink the Xiongnu's blood!"

Zhao Gou: "As expected of Marshal Yue. Your logistical foresight in sustaining war through war surpasses the ages. I also have a recipe here for refining... from the skin and fat of the Jin people!"

Yue Fei: "Your Majesty, I was only expressing my feelings. You're taking it too far!"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.