Introduction to "Moon over the Bian River: Records of Emperors and Empresses Together"
Lin Wei, a graduate student in the Department of Modern Architecture, traveled back in time to the third year of Jingyou's reign in the Northern Song Dynasty with half of the fragment of "Building French Style" due to a laboratory accident. At that time, the Song Dynasty suffered from internal and external troubles: Renzong Zhao Zhen lost three sons in a row and was deeply in the pain of bereavement; Li Yuanhao of the Western Xia Dynasty was eyeing the tiger, and the border war was about to burn; the drought in the Yellow River caused refugees to fill the fields, and the national treasury was "three redundant" "Empty, Lu Yijian and other old ministers in the court stick to the old rules, Empress Cao in the harem is childless and dignified, Concubine Zhang is arrogant and favored - Lin Wei's arrival is just a change in the stormy time.
When they first met in Hongqiao, she used her knowledge of modern architecture to uncover the hidden dangers of the bridge piers, and unexpectedly opened the door to the emperor's heart. When she entered the palace as a concubine, she won Renzong's favor with her plans for improving farm tools and good livelihood strategies, but she was also involved in secret fights among the concubines and disputes in the court: Empress Cao pressured her by saying "the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics," Concubine Zhang used secret means to frame her, and old ministers such as Lu Yijian used "ancestral methods" to obstruct the New Deal.
But her bond with Zhao Zhen has long gone beyond that of an ordinary imperial concubine: in the royal study late at night, she accompanied him to review memorials and turned the "Green Miao Law" and "The Art of War" into strategies to help the world; during the pilot project in Chenliu County, she went to the fields to appease the farmers and disrupt the powerful plots of the landlords; when the Xixia invaded, she helped him stabilize the rear and reduce the harem expenses as military pay. From the courtesy of a monarch and his ministers when they first met, to the bond of confidants sharing the ups and downs, to the mutual affection after the birth of the prince Zhao Fang, the two worked together to break the shackles of "harem interference in politics", withstood the pressure of the government and the opposition to implement the New Deal, and finally brought the Song Dynasty to a prosperous state with a full treasury and a peaceful border.
This is a legend of emperors and empresses that spans thousands of years, including the fireworks of Hongqiao on the Bianhe River
