The Song Dynasty's Man in Charge

The fake beauty trap: a beauty. The real beauty trap: Zhuge Wuhou. Chen Quan transmigrates to the fifth year of the Tiansheng era and becomes the worthy minister foretold in a dream. The new emperor, Zhao Zhen, insists he’s “Zhuge Wuhou”! Chen Quan is utterly baffled. What do they mean, he’s become the man calling the shots in the Great Song? … What does Tiansheng mean? Two saints. The fifth year of Tiansheng corresponds to 1027 AD. That year, Liu E, hailed as “the female Yao and Shun,” grows ever more overbearing, hoping to imitate the female emperor Wu Zetian. The new emperor, just seventeen, is little more than a puppet. That year, Li Yuanhao of the Tanguts is poised to secretly found a state and break away from the Song to proclaim himself emperor. That year, the Great Song has its own unique “chancellors’ leaderboard.” That year, the new emperor Zhao Zhen receives a prophetic dream: “The Great Ancestor appeared to me in a dream and told me to listen. He said... ‘Among the scholars of the realm, only Ziheng can save the Great Song!’” And that same year... Chen Quan arrives in the Great Song, becoming the worthy minister foretold in a dream! With one hand, he tends to agriculture; with the other, he battles for political power. He serves three emperors as chancellor, chooses two crown princes, enters the inner circle of top ministers, and commands the armies, allowing the sagely emperor to rule with little effort! At last, the new emperor, who has spent his whole life being pushed around, and the Great Song, weakened generation after generation, have finally found a powerful man to call the shots! Some say that the peace and prosperity of the realm are all thanks to Chen Quan. But Chen Quan says, “The realm’s peace and prosperity are truly the result of Your Majesty’s great blessings and the joint efforts of civil and military officials. I am merely a public servant, entrusted with authority for a time. What credit could I claim?”