[Alternate history + Transmigration + Restoration amid chaos + Conquest + Reform]
In the sixth year of Yongjia under the Great Qian dynasty, the capital falls and the emperor is taken north.
Who doesn’t yearn for a golden age of peace, with the land secure and the people united?
But now, flames of war rage everywhere, and the Central Plains lie in ruins.
A modern soul transmigrates into Zhang Xuan, who unexpectedly finds himself draped in the imperial yellow and takes the throne in record time.
Behind him, the cavalry of the Shuo Kingdom presses ever closer. Before him, the entire court is bent on fleeing south.
There are only five days’ worth of provisions left, eight thousand battered soldiers, and a hundred thousand refugees lying frozen along the imperial road.
Everyone plans to abandon the people and flee for their own lives.
Zhang Xuan can’t hold back: “What do you mean, I’ve only just become emperor and now I have to attend my own funeral?”
He uses himself as bait to hold off the enemy, leads more than a hundred thousand refugees across the Huai River, sheds his armor and hurries on, then spends half a month making his way to seize power in Jinling.
He reforms the bureaucracy, advances technology, and wins the people’s support.
He defeats powerful enemies abroad, improves people’s lives at home, expands the borders, and brings the land together once more.
