The Stormy Song Dynasty

In the latter part of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Zhao Kuangyin, a military man by birth, seized the opportunity created by a young ruler and a shaky state to stage the Chenqiao Mutiny and have the yellow robe placed on him. He then used a banquet to disarm his generals, consolidating the Zhao regime as the country gradually unified.

However, the Liao, Jin, and Xia rose in the north one after another, and the Song court could not escape its decline. Both emperors of the Northern Song were taken prisoner.

The Southern Song court sought only to preserve its own comfort, but ultimately repeated history. Its three young emperors were captured, died, or were lost at sea...

Arranged chronologically, this book selects more than a hundred legendary stories from the two Song dynasties, taking readers into an era of constant warfare and fervent passion.