The Tang Dynasty Starts by Saving Empress Changsun

[Previously titled Flourishing Age of the Tang]

On the jimao day of the sixth month of Zhenguan Year Ten, Empress Zhangsun was critically ill, and the assembled physicians were powerless to help.

Just then, the renowned physician Sun Simiao, who lived in seclusion on Mount Taibai, returned to Chang’an to apply for a monastic registration certificate for his newly accepted disciple.

Li Shimin was overjoyed and summoned Sun Simiao to the palace to treat the empress.

“Divine physician, can you cure her?”

“I can’t, but my disciple can.”

“May I ask where your esteemed disciple is?”

“He’s right outside the palace.”