Ming Kong Ji

She has reached the top, but she is looking to a higher place - there is no throne there, only the principle of the movement of heaven and earth. "Mingkong Ji" opens a chapter that history has never described in detail: Wu Zetian was no longer satisfied with holding power in her later years, she wanted to find the secret of the empire's endless prosperity. Starting from the cracked ridges of fields in the drought-stricken areas of Hebei, she touched the pulse of resource circulation; in the clang of military workshops, she heard the precursors of standardized production; between the lines of numerous codes, she weaved the warp and weft of institutional rationality; through the fog of gender bias, she ignited the potential of half the sky. Finally, in the lights of thousands of houses on the night of the Lantern Festival, she saw the warmest destination of all rational designs - allowing every life to enjoy ordinary happiness. She prefaced it with a wordless monument, inviting you to continue: When a person has the power to rewrite the times, what kind of warmth will she leave for the world? Let us follow this eternal empress and embark on this journey of the soul that uses mountains and rivers to paint paintings and all living beings to become poems.