Great Tang: A Duel at Xuanwu Gate? I'll Build an Immortal Dynasty Instead

This book is also titled “Great Tang: I Hold Up the Empress Dowager’s Memorial Tablet and Demand the Emperor Abdicate!” “Your Majesty, please retire to Daan Palace!” The fourth day of the sixth month, the seventeenth year of Zhenguan. Crown Prince Li Chengqian stormed through the palace gates alone on horseback. He carried the head of Prince Li Tai in his left hand and the memorial tablet of Empress Zhangsun in his right. His armor stained with blood, he rode straight to Longshou Plain! Facing the furious and astonished Heavenly Qaghan, Li Shimin, he pointed the sword in his hand at him. “Your Majesty, please retire to Daan Palace!” “Chengqian, are you rebelling?!” “Your Majesty, you will address me as Crown Prince!” “I am the co-ruler of the Great Tang. For eighteen years, I have served diligently without a moment’s slack. Yet Your Majesty intends to let Li Tai take up residence in Wude Hall. Have you forgotten Mother’s dying words?” “I refuse to become another Hidden Crown Prince! To save myself, I must strike at the root!” As the court officials stared in utter horror, Li Chengqian stood with only three thousand Brocade-Clad Guards and countless spectral immortals behind him. “Today, I shall create a new Great Tang, one inhabited by immortals alone!” … On the ninth day of the eighth month in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin abdicated. On the thirtieth day of the twelfth month, Li Chengqian ascended the throne, changed the era name to Xiansheng, and took the title of Azure Emperor!