In the eighth year of Zhenguan, I transmigrated into the body of Li Yuan’s most good-for-nothing youngest son, the Prince of Shu. The moment I was born, I was thrown into a desperate situation: Empress Zhangsun was gravely ill and close to death. The Imperial Medical Bureau was powerless, so I used modern medicine to turn the tide. I saved the Empress, shocking the entire court.
Li Shimin offered me any reward I wanted: high office, riches, or vast lands. I only raised one finger and asked to marry the young daughter of the Wu family, who was supposed to enter the palace in the future: Wu Xu.
From then on, the good-for-nothing prince shunned power struggles and ducked out of court affairs, wanting only to lie flat. Yet, with his skills in medicine, science and engineering, and economics, he exposed the dangers of close-kin marriage in the imperial family, created wonders that improved people's lives, and pushed through reforms to break the aristocratic clans' monopoly. He built firearms to pacify the Turks and conquer Japan, rewriting the history of the Great Tang with his own hands, locking the future empress's fate into place, and forging an empire on which the sun never set, with every nation in submission.
In the end, the carefree prince who had only wanted to marry away Li Shimin’s “future wife” became the Great Tang’s most indispensable pillar of stability.
The writing is okay. I thought it was Changsun Wugu. I just came in to take a look and it turned out to be Wu Meiniang. I felt a little disappointed.
The writing is good and the story is good.
Luo Ji thought clearly. The details are meticulously drawn. Historical content. It makes people want to keep watching.