In the winter of the ninth year of Kaibao's reign, the shadow of a candle flickered red and the sound of an ax suddenly sounded. Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, passed away suddenly on the night of "the sound of candle shadow and axe", leaving only an unsolved case for eternity. (This work has no system + is not invincible + is not a cool article)
However, the Emperor Star has not yet died.
Lu Heng, a modern scholar of Song and Liao history, came through his soul at this fateful moment and managed to survive in the desperate situation of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He inherited Taizu's imperial body and broken memories, and also took over the crumbling thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. Within the palace walls, Jin King Zhao Guangyi has laid a dragnet to force him into the palace in the name of "visiting sick people"; outside the palace walls, Xiao Yan, the Empress Dowager Chengtian of the Liao Kingdom, is watching the wolf, and the Yanyun cavalry is sharpening their swords, waiting for changes in the Central Plains.
There are no usable soldiers inside and no help from outside. Shi Shouxin and other old friends were closely monitored and unable to move; the queen and the prince were imprisoned and became hostages; all the civil and military officials in the dynasty had either defected or were watching from the sidelines. In such a huge palace city, he was like a lonely boat trapped in the stormy waves, with only two or three loyal servants around him, relying on them with their lives.
He uses thousands of years of historical knowledge as his blade and hides his secrets behind the diseased bones. With the help of a carefully woven "wind and cold", we can seek skin from the tiger between reality and reality; secretly form loyal friends in the silent place, and gather the glimmer of light in the desperate situation. This is not only a life-and-death struggle for power, but also an ultimate question of fate - can he carve out a different way of life for China in this already doomed situation?
The candle has not been extinguished, and the Emperor Zuo is waiting to continue. This is a scholar-emperor's battle between trapped beasts, and it is also the beginning of a tragic and grand epic that strives to turn the tide of collapse.
