A top modern history student unexpectedly transmigrates, awakening in the body of the timid puppet emperor of the Great Yao Dynasty.
Within the palace, the empress dowager and her relatives dominate the court. Outside it, the regent holds power over the realm. Aristocratic clans have usurped control of the imperial court, northern barbarians threaten the borders, the treasury is empty, and refugees are everywhere.
Everyone calls him a foolish, incompetent ruler, a mere puppet to be manipulated, fit only to serve as a figurehead.
But no one knows that a thousand-year-old soul now inhabits that body.
He understands political intrigue and the rise and fall of dynasties; he knows farming, military affairs, and governance.
He bides his time and plans each move carefully, stirring rival ministers into conflict while winning over loyal officials and men of humble birth;
he cleans up the bureaucracy, reforms the tax system, promotes agriculture and sericulture, and trains elite troops;
he purges treacherous officials, puts down rebellions, secures the frontiers, and brings peace to the people.
From a deposed emperor at everyone else's mercy to the supreme ruler of the realm,
he takes the empire into his hands, welcomes envoys from every nation, and builds an age of prosperity for the ages!
