[Northern Song Dynasty · No System · Imperial Examinations · Leading Troops · Older Princess]
In the third year of Qingli, Cao Yan took a fall and became the most useless imperial brother-in-law in Bianjing.
The legitimate grandson of Cao Bin, younger brother of Empress Cao, born to a family of generals, yet the original Cao Yan knew only gambling, drinking, and cockfighting.
He fell from his horse at Fan Tower, cracked his head open, and finally woke up.
He studied under Fan Zhongyan, placed third in the imperial examinations, invented thunder-crash bombs, and trained a firearms battalion that sent Western Xia’s armored cavalry reeling. In the court, he rested a hand on his sword and looked around: “Why should the soldiers of Great Song have to live on their knees?”
Princess Zhao Suzhi, the Grand Princess of Wei, was twenty-seven, a haughty, mature beauty.
“Cao Yan, you’re twenty and I’m twenty-seven. What makes you think you can marry me?”
“Because I’ll stake my life on it, and because Great Song’s foremost military family will never bend its back!”
In this life, there will be no humiliation of Jingkang.
Only Great Song’s iron cavalry, smashing through the Helan Mountains!
