Great Han: After Twenty Years of Patience, Emperor Wu Is Stripped of Power

The second year of Yuanfeng. Emperor Wu of Han feared the power of the imperial in-laws. On top of that, Crown Prince Liu Ju was far too obsessed with strange inventions and clever contraptions. He planned to fake his own death to eliminate his rivals and ensure the dynasty would continue without interruption. The protagonist had transmigrated as a child into the body of Liu Ju, the most unjustly doomed scapegoat in history. He truly believed that Emperor Wu of Han, the strongest carbon-based life-form known to mankind, had died before his time. Since Emperor Wu was dead, the throne would naturally pass to the next in line, right? But then, the Witchcraft Crisis broke out ahead of schedule. Before Emperor Wu passed away, he planned to have Empress Wei Zifu, the Crown Prince's mother, put to death. The ministers and feudal kings all want to stop me from inheriting the throne, do they? Then let them see what my Imperial Guards can do! When Emperor Wu finally realized what was happening, he discovered that the Han Empire had been turned upside down. He, the mighty emperor of the ages, had been sidelined! "What? Liu Ju has killed off all the opposition?" "Where did he get an army?" "He even sidelined Emperor Wu of Han. What gives him the right?" "No marriage alliances, no reparations, the emperor guards the frontier, and the ruler dies for his land! Is he going to wage war recklessly again?" "He abolished the enfeoffment system outright, scrapped the recommendation system, and even ended the state's monopoly on salt and iron. The treasury's going to be drained!" "He still wants to push ahead with reforms and go overseas?" As time went by, Emperor Wu suddenly realized: How had his Han Empire become so powerful? Oh, not his empire. It was his son's Han Empire!