Sowing the Song Dynasty

In the first year of the Tianyou era of the Song dynasty, aboard an ironclad warship, Zhong Lian gazed at the churning sea and could not help thinking back to that early spring more than fifty years ago. That year, he had only just transmigrated to this world. That year, those northern tribes still lorded it over the sons of Han. When did things begin to change? Leaning against the deck, Zhong Lian thought it over carefully. It seemed to have begun on a morning in the second year of the Xuanhe era of the Northern Song, when he barged into the military tent of Tong Guan, commander of the army marching to conquer Xia…