[Historical Transmigration] [No System] [Struggle for Sea Power] [Political Intrigue and Ensemble Cast]
In the first year of the Xiangxing era, Emperor Duanzong Zhao Shi died on Naozhou Island.
A soul from eight hundred years in the future awoke as Zhao Bing, Prince of Wei, just seven years old.
The history books said that in less than a year, the Song army would be wiped out at Yashan, Lu Xiufu would leap into the sea with the emperor, and the Southern Song dynasty would fall.
This time, Zhao Bing refused to sail into the bay destined to bury the dynasty.
He had no System to summon armies of thousands. All he could rely on was his knowledge of history's outcome and a battered fleet drifting at sea, short of food and water and riven by factional rivalries, carrying hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians.
Audit the ships' provisions, disperse the imperial camp, seize the sea routes, reach out to Champa, develop Hainan... He would transform a court fleeing in panic into a maritime state capable of levying taxes, building ships, training troops, and waging war for the long term.
But once history changed, the advantage of foresight would gradually disappear. The Yuan army pressed closer with every step, spies at court had yet to be rooted out, and a hand called "Egret" had already reached from Quanzhou's trade routes into the imperial fleet.
Yashan could be avoided, but the fate of a fallen dynasty would not simply go away.
This time, Zhao Bing would not ask his ministers to die for the Song.
He would have them live, and take back their land.
