Twenty Years of the Great Ming

Name: Twenty Years of the Great Ming
Author: Cure for All Things

大明二十年

by Cure for All Things (万物解药)

Status: Completed
Length: 689k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical & Ancient
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In the tenth year of the Xuande reign, the emperor dies. Nine-year-old Zhu Qizhen ascends the throne, his legs dangling in midair, unable to reach the floor.

Empress Dowager Zhang rules from behind the curtain, assisted by the Three Yangs. Everything seems rock-solid. But Wang Zhen, the Director of Ceremonial who holds the brush, is using story after story to draw the young emperor closer to him, little by little.

Sixty-one-year-old Yang Shiqi believes his greatest opponents are his political rivals at court. He is wrong. The real battle is being fought between the recitations of the imperial lectures and the glow of palace lanterns, over the soul of a child.

This is not a bloody clash of blades, but a long struggle of patience and companionship. Whoever shapes the emperor’s character can shape the whole realm.

Twenty years of the Zhengtong reign. It all begins with that bow before the coffin.

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