"Start with farm tools, start with roads, start with commerce." He whispered, "Change must start from the most basic place. I want Chang'an County to become Datang's first experimental field."
He stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the night sky in Chang'an City.
The stars are like chess pieces, laid out for thousands of years.
"Li Shimin gave me a county, and I want to give him back an empire."
"I want to make Chang'an not just the first county in Gyeonggi Province, but the 'No. 1 County in the world.'"
"I want to make the Tang Dynasty not just a dynasty in the Central Plains, but a 'global empire' that spans land and sea and attracts thousands of nations."
