Late Tang Dynasty: Starting from Zhu Wen's Adoption of His Son

The moment he traveled to Zhu Wen's adopted son Zhu Youwen, he knew he only had eight years. Eight years later, Zhu Yougui would launch a coup, and a single edict could kill him. He was familiar with every turning point in this period of history - Zhu Wen's usurpation of the Tang Dynasty, the disaster of Baimayi, Li Cunxu's cavalry, the Khitan's march south - but he also knew that relying on foresight alone could not save lives. In this chaotic world of the Five Dynasties, the suspicious and violent adoptive father Zhu Wen may fall out at any time, the sinister and vicious brother Zhu Yougui has been sharpening his sword in secret, and the Shatuo cavalry in the north is watching eagerly. And he was just a Kaifeng Yin with no real power, with less than two thousand taels of silver in his account, and not even a single reliable person around him. But he has an advantage that others don't have. He knows who to trust and who to betray. He knows which battles will be won and which battles will be lost. From the Baimao camp to the order of grace, from the forbidden army to the court, it took him eight years to take power back into his own hands bit by bit. Wang Yanzhang's cavalry was at his disposal, Jingxiang's old strategist was advising him, and opponents fell in front of him one after another - not relying on the system, not relying on golden fingers, but relying on the deepest understanding of this era and the most accurate calculations. By the time he sat on the dragon throne, Zhu Yougui had already knelt, Li Keyong was dead, and the Khitan people had retreated to the grassland. And it only took him eight years.