Revive the collapsing Tang, restore its broken legacy; reclaim the shattered realm and pacify the nine provinces in a chaotic age.
After transmigrating into Li Ye, the Tang dynasty's second-to-last emperor, he finds himself from the start in a living hell of powerful eunuchs and fractious regional governors.
In the first year of Wende, 888 AD, Emperor Xizong of Tang passed away. Twenty-two-year-old Prince of Shou Li Jie ascended the throne beside his coffin and changed his name to Li Ye.
Liu Chong, an ordinary man from a later era, transmigrates into the body of this tragic final emperor.
By then, the Tang empire is already broken and beset by a hundred ills: eunuchs control the imperial guards, court officials are divided into factions, and members of the imperial clan covet the throne. Beyond the passes, regional governors stand in force, while Zhu Wen and Li Keyong eye the Central Plains. The capital region teems with refugees and disease, and the cataclysmic chaos of the Five Dynasties era looms overhead.
Faced with schemes from the entire court and the ever-present threat of a blade falling on him, Li Ye, a veteran official who has spent twenty years navigating the system, says, "Don't panic. When it comes to balancing interests, political maneuvering, and getting people on board, I'm the professional."
This is the story of a veteran grassroots official in the chaos of the late Tang, using modern wisdom and feudal political intrigue to forge, against all odds, a golden age that draws tribute from every nation.
(This novel continues the parallel history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period from the reign of Emperor Zhaozong in the late Tang. The lifespans of some figures and the timeline have been adapted for the plot, while the main historical figures and their personalities have been retained.)
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