At the top of the city of Jinyang, a beacon fire crackled the night. Li Yuan and his son stood up in Taiyuan with their three-foot swords, rode their horses to knock on the pass, and set the tripod in Chang'an. The golden armies and iron horses shattered the setting sun of the late Sui Dynasty, and the long song of Zhenguan played the prelude to the prosperous age - it was the majestic appearance of the Khan of Heaven and his power across the world, the glory of Chang'an City where all nations came to court, the romance of poets and immortals fighting for wine, and the vastness of Xuanzang's westward journey. In the three hundred years of the Tang Dynasty, there was the grace of colorful clothes and feathers, and there was also the blood and fire of the Anshi Rebellion; there was the determination to reform the old country through the Two Taxes Reform, and there was also the scar of the Xiaoqiang due to the Niu and Li factions; there was the undercurrent of power and intrigue in the Ganlu Rebellion, and there was the conflagration of the Huangchao Uprising.
The cycle of ups and downs continued, and the dynasty's vitality was gradually eroding under the iron heel of the feudal separatist regime. When Zhu Wen's banner rolled over Bianliang, the former heavenly kingdom was already in turmoil. Emperor Ai's edict for the Zen throne was the last ray of setting sun on the Jinluan Palace, and the final sound of the collapse of a three-hundred-year-old foundation.
From the heroic and heroic events of Jinyang's uprising to the elegies of Bianliang's usurpation of imperial edicts, this book takes rise and fall as its axis and characters as its pen, depicting the war, elegance, glory and desolation of the three hundred years of the Tang Dynasty. Watch the power play of emperors, generals and ministers, appreciate the sentiments of the literati and their country, lament the fleeting prosperity of the prosperous times, and feel helpless sadness at the end of the dynasty. This is a legend engraved in the long history, a magnificent epic about power, ideals, bloodshed and destiny.
