Late Tang Dynasty: Beginning as a Fort Guard and Handyman

If you were given a bowl of moldy rice and traveled to the late Tang Dynasty, how long would you live? Liu Yan's answer is: thirty years. Not only did he survive, he also killed the powerful, purged the eunuchs, destroyed the puppet Liang, and settled the world, standing above everyone's heads. What's even crazier is that when everyone knelt down to ask him to proclaim himself emperor, he asked: "I have fought as a nobleman all my life, do I want my descendants to become new noblemen?" One sentence overturned the underlying logic of the aristocratic family.