The Long Night Is Young: in the Beginning, He Takes the Place of the Sick Prince to Supervise the Country.

The protagonist travels to an imaginary dynasty "Yong Dynasty" and becomes the companion of the East Palace. The prince is seriously ill, the emperor has lost contact during his northern tour, and powerful officials in Beijing, relatives, princes, nobles, and border troops all have their own agendas. The protagonist is secretly entrusted by the sick prince to take charge of secret edicts on behalf of the prince in the humble capacity of "Order of the East Palace" and supervise the country in times of crisis. The protagonist uses modern governance ideas to rectify the finance, salt and iron, military system, granaries, intelligence, and officialdom, and step by step he revives the dynasty that is about to collapse. At the same time, he slaps the powerful ministers in the face, subdues the generals, and intimidates the princes. Finally, he goes from "supervising the country for the prince" to "being ordered to start a new dynasty." This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.