The Storm of China: Huiwu Kaizuolu

In the last years of the Yi Dynasty, the imperial power collapsed and the people were oppressed with heavy taxes. The Beirong army was on the verge of defeat every year, and Weizhou in the northwest became an isolated island in troubled times. The governor Tantai Jin was seriously ill, and his 23-year-old eldest son Tantai Cangmin was appointed to take charge of the military and political affairs of the state. He established a national policy based on Lu Jingwen's Sixteen Characters to consolidate the foundation and secure the people. He relied on the famous border guard general Wei Lin to guard the northern border. He also had the queen Su Qingyan to take care of the rear and comfort the refugees. The husband, wife, monarch and ministers worked together to withhold taxes, reclaim wasteland, provide relief, and clean up the border defenses. They protected hundreds of thousands of people in the desperate situation of the imperial court abandoning the northwest. The city of Tian'an was destroyed, the last emperor's seal in the East Palace was martyred, and the orthodoxy of the Yi Dynasty was cut off. Tantai Cangmin ascended the throne in the Acropolis, designated the country's name and emblem, despised corvee and neglected taxes, worshiped literature and promoted martial arts, and created a stable and prosperous era for decades. But under the prosperous age, there was an undercurrent: the concubine Jingni Wang Tantai Chenxiao was resentful because of his throne, and colluded with the Mobei lord Mohe Guli to raise his troops to rebel, and the war swept across the northern Xinjiang. In the past, the brothers of the monarchs and ministers turned against each other, and the heroes outside the wall, the clan rebels, the founding fathers, the emperors and the concubines were all involved in the dispute. The book runs in parallel, with intrigues in the court, bloody battles in the northern frontier, peace in the harem, rebellion in the clan, one hundred and twenty-seven frontier battles, and the change of imperial power between two generations. It is a mountain and river epic of the founding of a country in troubled times, the collapse of a prosperous age, and the destruction of flesh and blood.