The Yellow River is murky, yet it can irrigate fields.
The Yangtze is clear, yet it can also capsize boats.
The world has never been simply black or white.
I, Jiang Zhao, will use this capable body to do the extraordinary and become the turbulent tide that sets the world to rights!
From earning a reputation among the common folk to presenting policy essays at the palace exam.
From a poor scholar to the chief grand secretary of the cabinet.
He forged a path to power unlike any before.
When he presided over the Six Ministries and held the court in his grasp,
all the officials called him the chief grand secretary.
“Rules?”
Standing at the peak of the court, Jiang Zhao gazed down at the officials in their crimson and purple robes and gave a soft laugh.
“Where I stand, I am the rules.”
The History of Zhou, Biography of Jiang Zhao, records:
“Zhao served as regent three times and guided two young sovereigns, establishing the precedent of a chief grand secretary wielding the cabinet’s central authority. This system endured until the end of the Zhou dynasty.”
And it all began that winter,
with a scholar staking his life on a ten-day deadline.
Princesses in the Song and Ming dynasties had no power
It's really well written