"A republic is not a restoration of the old system, nor is it a disorder of government without a king. It is a republic where the monarch and his ministers discuss the affairs of the country together, the officials and the people abide by the law, and the benefits of the world are shared by all the people!"
He told Chai Rong, who had not yet ascended the throne, some words that shocked the past and the present.
He is a scholar who escaped from the Khitan and returned to the north, and he is a doctor of history from a thousand years later.
One sentence reveals the root of the troubled times in the Five Dynasties. Chai Rong became his confidant, but he died young and his ambition was not fulfilled.
The world only knows about Chen Qiao's mutiny and the yellow robe, but they don't know that before the founding of the Song Dynasty, he had already made a secret agreement with Zhao Kuangyin to change the world.
He did not act as a powerful minister or seek a throne, but relied on his insights that were beyond the times to nail the republican policy into the Song Dynasty bit by bit.
In troubled times, he is fighting for hegemony, the Khitans are suppressing the territory, and vassal towns are separatist. Let's see how he stirs up the world with a piece of strategy and rebuilds China's new world!
