(An alternate-history setting. The protagonist leads an army to found a dynasty.)
In the final years of the Great Jing dynasty, the people were destitute, military governors ruled as warlords, and the barbarians watched hungrily from the border.
Li Xin excelled in both civil and military affairs, but the court was corrupt, leaving him no way to enter officialdom.
The lower ranks had no gentry, and the upper ranks had no commoners.
Was someone born among the common people doomed to never pass through the Dragon Gate?
In that case,
if he couldn't get into Chang'an by taking the examinations, he would just have to fight his way in!
With his golden finger, Li Xin put military strategy into practice. He recruited famous generals, studied the art of war, trained in battle formations, and obtained tiger tallies for special troops. From a country bumpkin in the sticks, he grew into a warlord who held the world in his grasp!
On that day, Li Xin led an army of a hundred thousand through the gates of Chang'an. The nobles of the capital's main avenue knelt beneath the city walls and begged to surrender. The emperor trembled as he asked what Li Xin wanted. Li Xin pointed to the throne and said:
The world.
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