The king of subjugation, who bore the evil posthumous title of "Yang", was awakened by a nightmare of a blood moon on the night he ascended the throne - hanging, burning the palace, and overturning the country were all vivid in his mind. But no one knows that in the heart of this reborn emperor, there is another soul: Lin Mu, a top student in the history department of the 21st century.
As a result, history took a completely different trajectory.
He stopped the massive labor force and reformed the imperial examination to open the way for poor families; he established the Gewuyuan and asked Li Wanqing, the daughter of a craftsman, to develop steam engines, telegraphs, and tracks; he changed unpaid corvee to paid labor, replaced conquest with trade routes, and used science and technology to reshape the national destiny. Empress Xiao followed her through life and death, Prince Yang Zhao devoted himself wholeheartedly, and a generation of heroes such as Li Shimin, Li Jing, and Qin Qiong gathered under his command.
However, reform is never about treating guests to dinner. The counterattack of the Guanlong family, the betrayal of the adopted son, the premature death of the prince, the fierce collision of old and new ideas - under the robes of the prosperous age, blood and tears flow freely. From the roar of steam to the transmission of messages by radio waves, from the centralization of monarchy to the republic of virtual monarchs, from gunpowder storage to interstellar exploration, three generations spent a hundred years pushing an ancient empire to the top of civilization.
This is an epic about rebirth, but also a fable about choice: when a person returns to the past with thousands of years of memory, can he avoid all traps and establish a dynasty that will never perish?
