A Zhenguan-Era Power Play

Lin Yan, a top modern history student, opens his eyes to find that he has transmigrated into a down-and-out scholar in the early Zhenguan era of the Tang dynasty, and is bound to a “Golden Age Governance System.”

From the start, the aftermath of the Xuanwu Gate Incident still lingers and undercurrents roil at court. Li Jiancheng's former followers are stirring, Turkic cavalry threaten the borders, and even Li Shimin lies awake at night worrying over the people's desperate plight.

Clutching the System's “land equalization reform plan,” Lin Yan stands on a street in Chang'an and smiles. Other people transmigrate to save their own lives; he transmigrates to “take charge of the Tang dynasty”!

He presents sound strategies to end food shortages, develops the curved-shaft plow to boost farming, builds academies to train talent, and drills the Black Tortoise Army to defeat the Turks...

Li Shimin claps him on the shoulder and calls him “my Zhang Liang.” Changsun Wuji sighs, “The young are to be feared,” while even Princess Gaoyang can't help asking, “Master Lin, how many more of those ‘visions of the future’ do you have?”

Looking out over the lights of Chang'an, Lin Yan traces a finger across the System screen. “Don't rush. This game of ‘Chang'an’ has only just begun.”

(No world-hopping, no brainless wish fulfillment, only calculated political maneuvering at every step, and the fervor of personally guiding the Tang dynasty to its peak!)