Name: The Years of Peace After the Smoke Cleared: Tales From the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Author: Laughter in the Distant Rosy Clouds

Synopsis

A chaotic age that transmigrators can’t flee fast enough, and a stage that power-hungry schemers dream of taking over.

After the Great Tang Company went bankrupt, the realm entered “free enterprise” mode. Over fifty-three years, fifteen “CEOs” took turns at the top, serving an average of three and a half years apiece. This isn’t history. It’s a massive power struggle with a brutally low survival rate.

[Profiles of the Main Players]

• Zhu Wen (the Gambler): Went from “flexible employment” at the Huang Chao Company to the Great Tang, where his boss gave him the name “Quanzhong.” Major achievements: destroying his former company, treating his boss like a collectible figurine, bringing the Great Tang to an end, and being killed by his own son. Life motto: If I betray them fast enough, failure can’t catch me.

• Li Keyong (the One-Eyed Dragon King): Head of the Shatuo family business, with the elite “Adopted Sons’ Army” at his command. His life’s work: making life miserable for Zhu Wen, and vice versa. His final KPI: leaving three arrows for his son, each representing an enemy he had to eliminate.

• Li Cunxu (the Second-Generation God of War): Took over his father’s business, completed his revenge KPI, and destroyed Later Liang along the way. Hidden talent: writing and performing plays. Final fate: amid his subordinates’ rebellion, he died alongside the love of his life, his opera troupe.

[The Core Mechanics of the Era]

• Emperors went from “chosen by Heaven” to “the ultimate trophy for warlords.”

• The golden age of “literature about adopted fathers.”

• A boom in “job-hopping culture.”

[What You’ll Find Inside]

• The ultimate guide to surviving power games.

• The management woes of a family business.

• From chaos to order: How did this tangled mess of history quietly weave the threads of civilization that would shape the Song dynasty for the next three hundred years?

This isn’t a traditional history book. It’s an immersive postmortem of a game of power. It doesn’t whitewash tyrants or gild heroes.

Let the smoke of war clear, and peace emerge!

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