The sign of two dragons when a baby is born, and the twelve-word prophecy left by a wandering Taoist priest - "The appearance of a dragon and a phoenix, the appearance of the sky and the sun, and he will be able to help the world and bring peace to the people when he is nearly twenty years old." No one thought that this child named "Shimin" would personally bury an empire thirty years later and build an unprecedented prosperity on its ruins.
At the age of nineteen, he persuaded his father to raise an army. At the age of twenty, he was granted the title of King of Qin. At the age of twenty-four, he defeated an enemy of 100,000 with 3,000 Xuanjia troops at Hulao Pass and pacified the Central Plains in one fell swoop. He is a genius on the battlefield and a desperate player in the game of chess. That night at the Xuanwu Gate, he and his brother Li Jiancheng turned from brothers to mortal enemies. The arrows penetrated not only flesh and blood, but also the thirty-year brotherhood. After that night, he knelt in front of his father, who was covered in blood, crying like a child.
But tears did not stop him from becoming a wise king.
In the 23rd year of Zhenguan, he created the most dazzling governance in Chinese history with the awe of "water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it" - Fang Mou Du Duan, using people as mirrors, the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, and was revered as the "Khan of Heaven" by all parties. He also experienced the heartbreaking pain of the crown prince's dethronement, and in his later years he wrote the "Emperor's Model" in tears and left it to his successor.
This is a story about choice, betrayal, glory and loneliness. The life of an emperor is also a mirror that reflects human nature and destiny.
He is Li Shimin. He is his own protagonist and his brother's nemesis.
