He burned the Beidi cavalry, relied on Nanzhao's three strategies to pacify the southwest, and finally took control of Shenjing without any bloodshed. He abolished the eunuchs, eliminated vassal towns, and established new laws, single-handedly creating a new policy to "pacify the country."
He neither proclaimed himself emperor nor established an heir, but only established the "An Guo Yuan" to discuss the world together; he melted gold vessels in the palace, cast arrowheads, and opened royal warehouses to relieve hungry people; he promulgated the "Law of An Guo", which made princes and common people guilty of the same crime, and distributed powerful land to the refugees. The common people called him "Qingtian", and the nobles called him "Rebel", but he himself was always the lone eagle hovering in troubled times - neither disdainful to be a loyal minister nor willing to be a tyrant.
However, power is like fire. The tighter you hold it, the more intense it burns. His former allies left him, his brother questioned his ways, and the only woman who understood his ambitions quietly left the scene after her hairpin was cut off. With Beidi oppressing the country outside and aristocratic families fighting back inside, he had to use thunderous means to maintain the New Deal. However, under every "family execution" order, he heard his father's sigh before being executed when he was a boy.
"Jinzhou Chronicles" is a heroic elegance that takes place in an alternate history, and is also a bronze mirror that shines into the abyss of idealism. It asks: When the salvation of the world must be stained with blood, and when order must be founded on dictatorship, can the man who once lit the lamp for the people still keep the light in his heart?
This is not an ode to emperors and generals, but the testimony of a sober man walking alone in troubled times——
He doesn't want to live long, as long as people living in future generations have the right to scold him.
Intention: The real salvation is not to become a saint, but to bear the responsibility of sin with a clear will in a dirty and troubled world, and to use imperfect means to protect the right of millions of people to live.