In the twenty-sixth year of Yong'an, during the imperial study examination, the emperor's eldest son Li Changgeng shocked everyone with his saying: "The way of governing a country is not divided at the top, but how to live at the bottom." Emperor Liang said to the second prince in public: "You are becoming less and less inferior to your elder brother now." This was not a compliment, but using him as a whetstone. Li Changgeng took a step back - he had to withdraw his edge when it was necessary.
But his concession cannot bring peace. The biological mother, Concubine Ning, was falsely accused of collaborating with the enemy. She used lamp coal to write a suicide note on white silk and then hanged herself from a beam. He knelt all over the Yangxin Hall and no one opened the door. Finally, he waited for an imperial edict declaring him to be a commoner. Everyone thought he would die in confinement. It wasn't until Beishuo's army came upon the border that Emperor Liang remembered that there was someone in the imperial mausoleum who could clean up the mess for him.
Many years later, the forgotten emperor's eldest son led the elite troops from the north to the imperial capital. The slogan only had three words: Qingjun side. From the imprisoned prince to the common ruler of the world - his imperial path climbed up from the abyss step by step. As for the blank space on the back of the piece of white silk, he spent eleven years filling it with writing.
