The twenty-third year of Zhenguan, AD 649.
Li Shimin died in Lingyan Pavilion, and the best era of the Tang Dynasty was over.
The first year of Dazhong, 847 AD.
The eunuch Ma Yuanzhi stood in front of the dragon couch holding a medicine bowl.
Outside the palace, 80,000 Shence troops only listened to his orders.
The Tubo cavalry defeated Fengxiang, less than three hundred miles away from Chang'an.
The three towns of Heshuo stood still and the aristocratic families looked on with cold eyes.
No one thought the empire could survive.
That winter, two souls fell on the ruins at the same time.
One is from Zhenguan and the other is from 2024.
In the secret passage, an oil lamp lit up all night.
What happened next, the history books only wrote one line——
"In the winter of the first year of Dazhong, the emperor began to take charge. In the next ten years, the world changed drastically."
Black powder blasted open the city gates. Flintlock muskets were put into military service. The sound of steam engines echoed throughout Guanzhong. The ironclad ship sailed out of the East China Sea.
Some people say that the heyday of Zhenguan has reappeared
But Bai Minzhong said: "This will be the Tang Dynasty that will shock the world."
