[Transmigration] [Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms] [Age of Discovery] [Knowledge from a Higher Dimension]
When Gu Haizhou woke up, he had become the last naval commander of the Wuyue Kingdom.
In 978 AD, the order had been given: surrender the kingdom to the Song. Hundreds of thousands of Wuyue soldiers and civilians were to be handed over without a fight.
But this time, he refused.
History books are filled with the rise and fall of dynasties, but no one ever asks: Where did those who refused to kneel go?
Gu Haizhou chose a path that lay beyond the history books.
Outside Lin'an Harbor, amid a raging storm, he carried no surrender petition, only five warships that refused to sink, and sailed toward the horizon where sea met sky.
The soul of a modern maritime historian collided with the turmoil of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. He knew the secrets of the monsoon, could hear the whispers of ship timbers, and knew that beyond the farthest reaches of the unknown ocean, a continent awaited discovery.
His task was to build a new country with his own hands on a land without historians, for those forgotten by their homeland.
Thus began the Tang Kingdom on the Sea.
At the end of the Five Dynasties, the Wuyue Kingdom fell. Seventy-two people sought survival at sea.
