After sleeping in his mausoleum for three hundred years, the great Tang emperor Li Shimin of the Zhenguan era opens his eyes amid the chaos of the late Tang dynasty.
He has become the twenty-one-year-old Tang emperor Zhaozong, Li Ye, a puppet ruler placed under house arrest by eunuchs in Shaoyang Court. He has no soldiers or provisions, and the realm is falling apart.
In Chang'an, a dou of rice costs three thousand coins. Outside the city, “human meat shops” have already appeared.
Zhu Wen of Bianzhou, Li Keyong of Hedong, Li Maozhen of Fengxiang... Warlords across the realm command their own armies and treat imperial authority as nothing. The Shence Army is rotten to the core, and the court’s orders never leave the palace gates.
Li Shimin has only a frail body, a rusty saber, and memories from three centuries in the past.
“I once ushered in the Zhenguan era of peace and prosperity, when all nations came to pay tribute.”
“Now, upon the ruins of this dying age, I will forge another Great Tang.”
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