Great Tang: Why Has Your Majesty Committed Treason?

"Li Longji was an amateur..."

"He had everything going for him, except that he died too late."

"If he'd died ten years earlier, perhaps I wouldn't have raised an army in the southern lands and rebuilt the nation."

"Of course, there's nothing wrong with being a loyal subject. It's just that, as a prince of a different surname, I have a lot more room to spread my wings."

So said Zhuge Lang, who had recaptured Chang'an and rescued the retired emperor, Li Longji, from the commoner Li Heng and his son, Li Yu.

After recording his words, the court historian cautiously asked, "Prime Minister, isn't that a bit harsh on him?"

Zhuge Lang: "?"

"Harsh on his ass!"

"The whole Tang Empire, its two capitals and fifteen circuits, rests on my shoulders. I'll say whatever the hell I want!"

"Besides, I haven't even called his son to account for rebelling. The father took his son's wife, and the son usurped his father's throne. With such an outrage against all human decency, how can the Li clan rule the realm?"

Of course, all that came later.

The story begins in the summer of the fifth year of Tianbao, when Zhuge Lang went tiger hunting to provide for his mother...