"One Hundred Years of Bianliang" is a general history work of the Northern Song Dynasty based on "History of the Song Dynasty".
This book begins with the mutiny of Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao, Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty. In chronological order, it tells the story of the replacement of emperors, power games, and the ups and downs of ministers in the Northern Song Dynasty for more than a hundred years. Different from the chronology and judgment of traditional history books, the author uses a light narrative to restore the hesitation, calculation and limitations of historical figures in key decisions, allowing the system, war and human nature to unfold naturally in the story.
It contains the caution and ambition at the beginning of the founding of the country, the compromises behind the prosperous times, and the struggles and failures of the reformers. It not only describes how the emperor governed the country, but also how the scholar-bureaucrats advanced and retreated, and also why a dynasty gradually turned around while seemingly stable.
This is a history of the Northern Song Dynasty written for contemporary readers:
Not a mythical emperor,
Don't shy away from intrigues,
Use stories to tell clearly how a dynasty was established, maintained, and consumed step by step.
