In the summer of the first year of Long'an, Sun Shaozong married.
In the spring of the second year of Long'an, the Retired Emperor passed away.
That autumn, Acting Commander of the Dragon Forbidden Guards Sun Shaozong personally led the three Liaodong garrisons and the Bohai Naval Force in a two-pronged advance to sweep the northern lands. He brought more than seventy thousand Liaodong wild tribes under submission, an event known to history as the Long'an Scouring of the Court.
In the spring of the fourth year of Long'an, Minister of War and Earl of Jinzhou Sun Shaozong petitioned to resettle refugees, fleeing peasants, famine victims, landless tenant farmers, and surplus canal workers in Liaodong.
Over the following decade, under the successive stewardship of Yu Qian, Sun Chengtao, Li Xian, and others, countless commoners from the Central Plains moved north beyond the passes. By the Ministry of Revenue's major census in the fifteenth year of Long'an, the Han population of Liaodong had surpassed one million.
In the winter of the ninth year of Long'an, Sun Shaozong, Secondary Grand Secretary and Marquis of Tongliao, petitioned for the establishment of the Academies of Engineering and Science. Because many craftsmen were selected as instructors, this drew criticism from the Scholarly Community, who declared, "How can depraved skills and ingenious tricks enter the halls of elegance?"
In the spring of the eleventh year of Long'an, the emperor assumed personal rule.
In the summer of the seventeenth year of Long'an, the Empress Dowager fell gravely ill and summoned Sun Shaozong, Grand Secretary and Duke of Wei, into the palace to entrust him with her final wishes. That afternoon, the Duke of Wei emerged drenched in blood.
It was said that blood had flowed through Kunning Palace like a pestle-pounding stream that day.
Afterward, thirty-seven civil