The Great Song Dynasty: 1142

When Zhao Youwei opened his eyes, the sky had fallen. He had transmigrated into the first emperor of the Southern Song, Emperor Gaozong, Zhao Gou, the very man he had just cursed as a spineless lackey. It was the twenty-sixth day of the third month of the twelfth year of Shaoxing. Yue Fei had died unjustly two months earlier; peace talks between the Song and Jin had already concluded; Empress Dowager Wei was about to return south; and Qin Hui was on the verge of ushering in an era of unchecked power as sole chancellor. But had the Southern Song truly lost all hope of turning things around? “I don’t think so!” Zhao Youwei, or rather, Zhao Gou, as he should now be called, was going to change the era name from Shaoxing to Guangxing!