How a nomadic people from the Western Regions established their own dynasty on the ruins of the Tang Dynasty.
In the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao's uprising shook the country of Zuo for three hundred years. The Shatuo people from the Western Regions, with the wild nature of the grassland and their loyalty to the Tang Dynasty, took the surname "Li" as their flag and the name of "revenge" to break into the chess game of the Central Plains for hegemony.
The one-eyed dragon Li Keyong, the father of the Thirteen Taibao, gave three arrows to his son before his death: one to conquer Youzhou, the second to attack Khitan, and the third to destroy Zhu Liang.
Li Cunxu, the third Taibao, the "Li Tianxia" who was both civil and military, spent fifteen years to fulfill his mission, proclaimed himself the emperor and established the Tang Dynasty. However, after he ascended the throne, he favored the actors and was suspicious of the heroes. He died in three years and the country was destroyed.
Li Siyuan, the great eunuch, from his adopted son to emperor, dealt with the mess with mercy, but in his twilight years he witnessed his adopted son killing each other.
Li Cunxiao, the thirteenth Taibao, the "Flying Tiger Son" who bravely championed the three armies, died due to slander from his brothers and heavy snowfall when his car broke apart.
Shi Jingtang ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitan, and was known as the "Emperor" for all eternity, leaving this land without peace for the next four hundred years.
From the Western Regions to the Central Plains, from exiles to rulers, from the blood of the Li family to integrating into the Han family - it took the Shatuo people seventy years to complete the reincarnation of a nation.
Thirteen Taibao, thirteen adopted sons, thirteen heroes in troubled times. Among them are emperors, generals, traitors, and loyal ministers. They fought bloody battles and died at the hands of their brothers. They founded three dynasties and were eventually forgotten by history.
This is the last time they are told in full.
