My Adou Can't Possibly Be This Wise!

[Quasi-Emperor Li Er] + [Liu Shan, who died young] + [Slight alternate history] + [Regular updates]

The Black Tortoise Gate runs red with blood, and the dragon’s soul awakens in Shu.

After Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, is drenched in blood at the Xuanwu Gate, his soul transmigrates into the dying infant Liu Shan at Changban Slope. The instant the child opens his eyes, Zhao Yun meets a gaze steeped in the arts of imperial rule. The most humiliating puppet body in Shu Han is now infused with the mightiest spirit of statecraft in Chinese history.

Trapped in swaddling clothes, he coolly surveys the crumbling Ji Han: Guan Yu’s perilous isolation in Jingzhou, Zhuge Liang’s exhaustion from personally handling every task, and the whispers of Yi Province’s powerful clans that “Heaven’s mandate lies with Wei.” Haunting him at every turn is also the nightmare of the Xuanwu Gate, where he killed his brothers and forced his father to abdicate.

“In this life, I will never let Shu Han suffer the tragedy of brothers turning against each other and the nation collapsing!”

He turns an assassination plot aside with an infant’s cry and uses a prodigy’s counsel to correct the misguided course of the northern campaigns.

When Zhuge Liang dies at Wuzhang Plains, the young Liu Shan boldly abolishes the chancellor system and takes power into his own hands:

- He resolves Li Yan’s political struggle and forges an iron-fisted court;

- He strengthens Bashu’s granaries with the curved-plough ox-drawn plow and monopolizes the wealth of the Silk Road with water-powered spinning wheels;

- He even builds a formidable pass at Yinping to “kill Deng Ai,” turning the thunderous roar of thunderclap bombs into the soul of a new Han army!

From Changban Slope to Chang’an, the blood of the old followers of the Heavenly Strategy and Shu Han’s veteran ministers will at last converge into a mighty tide.

This time, he will uphold Kongming’s unfinished ambition of the northern campaigns with one hand and suppress the old scar of the Xuanwu Gate with the other.

“Father of the Realm, witness the mandate of the four-hundred-year Han dynasty: I shall carry it forward!”