Dachu Mountains and Rivers Have Accounts

Taizu left behind a forty-five-year legacy and a world that was short of money. Li Chengji returned to Beijing from the northern battlefield and succeeded to the throne according to his father's imperial edict. The eldest brother was once a prince, and now he still supports the court for him; in the old days, soldiers believed that as long as the emperor opened his mouth, nothing was impossible. He believed so too. An edict was issued, and the gate to the west was closed. Another order was passed to the south, the merchants added wine, the boatmen lost their jobs, and the sixth brother who was far away in Jiangning discovered that the words he had said had gone further than himself. In a bookstore in Beijing, a young man put away half a page of old paper left by his father. All he wanted to find out was why his father failed to come home. But the emperor is still waiting, waiting for the food that should come, the money that should arrive, and the truth that has not been told to him.