Dowager Empress, You Don't Want Great Zhou to Fall, Do You?

What’s it like to transmigrate into the role of Grand Chancellor of the Great Zhou?

Pei Guanlan’s answer:

Someone’s there to see him off from the start.

The only problem is, they’re seeing him off to his death.

The old emperor is gravely ill, and the crown prince is still a child.

To stop the chancellor, who holds power over the whole court, from controlling the young ruler, the emperor sets a deadly trap before he dies.

The empress poisons him.

The Imperial Guards seal off the palace.

The imperial clan takes control of the capital.

The censors draw up a list of charges.

They’re just waiting for Pei Guanlan to die so they can wipe out the entire Pei faction.

But no one expects it.

The chancellor now is no longer the Pei Guanlan he used to be.

The emperor wants him dead?

Then he’ll get his hands on the edict first.

The imperial clan wants to seize power?

Then he’ll set them against one another.

The great families control grain prices?

Then he’ll make them lose everything.

The vassal princes command their own armies?

Then he’ll put someone else in their place.

The northern frontier’s female general wants to restore her kingdom?

“Fine.”

“Help me defeat the Northern Barbarians first.”

Years later, Su Qinglian rules from behind the curtain, Qin Mingdang is made a prince and general, Zhao Qingyao guards the northern frontier with her iron cavalry, and Shen Youwei’s banks are found throughout the land.

And the once universally reviled treacherous chancellor now stands at the summit of the empire’s power.

Someone asks Pei Guanlan:

“Chancellor, do you want to be a loyal minister or a treacherous one?”

Pei Guanlan smiles.

“I just want everyone who calls me a traitor to get down on their knees first.”