I Invented Things in the Tang Dynasty, and the Emperor Laughed His Head Off

After his soul enters the body of someone in the Zhenguan era, Su Mu is nearly starved to death on the streets of Chang'an from the start. He saves the future wife of a duke with a jar of sour vinegar, and accidentally stumbles into the most ridiculous entrepreneurial career in history: a communal bathhouse, a wildly popular barbecue stall, and a “pressure cooker” that can blow the roof off… Every invention is stranger than the last, yet somehow he makes a name for himself as Chang'an’s eccentric inventor!

His projection box is mistaken for sorcery, his big-data fortune-telling stirs up trouble, and “Zhenguan Quick Bites” and his delivery service upend commerce. He throws the whole court into chaos! Wei Zheng denounces his “frivolous inventions” as a threat to the state, while Changsun Wuji sees him as a thorn in his side. Then an order ships him off to the frontier on “official business.” He plans to scare off the barbarians with his “divine weapons,” but the projector malfunctions, his long-range spyglass misidentifies the enemy, and even his “divine land mines” fail to go off… Could it be that square dancing is what finally settles the dispute?

When he returns with a string of absurd military achievements and a storm of pressure to get married, an unprecedented wave of impeachment awaits him in the Golden Throne Hall! Surrounded by the court’s senior officials, how will this “troublemaker,” who has turned the Tang Dynasty upside down, talk his way out of it? Will Li Shimin finally strike him down, or will he laugh and cry as he brands him the “Tang Dynasty’s Number One Jester”? In this absurd take on the Zhenguan era, watch a comedian turn the world on its head!