Why did Guangwu Zhaolie restore the dynasty?
As the Great Unification Dynasty that had stood for over two thousand years before disintegrating three hundred years ago, the Three Kingdoms of the Central Plains remained influenced by the Great Xuan Dynasty in every respect. Liang even claimed to be the orthodox successor of Great Xuan, dismissing Qi and Zhou as barbarians.
Studying the culture and history of the Great Xuan Dynasty was practically basic knowledge for scholars and Confucians. Ying Ru Shi, for instance, had spent a great deal of time researching the history of basic Token changes during the Later Xuan Period. She had discovered that local customs in different regions were closely related to the First Rank Tokens popular there: when Defensive Tokens were superior, the people were bold and fierce; when Offensive Tokens were easy to obtain, everyone lived in fear.
Since even such an obscure perspective had been studied, the key historical events surrounding Guangwu Zhaolie's restoration of Great Xuan had naturally been discussed to death long ago. Any student pulled at random from a school could answer Ying Le's question fluently, let alone the Great Confucian Scholar and Grand Tutor of the Court, Yuan Shizhou.
Yet Yuan Shizhou remained silent for a long while.
Ying Le was quite patient as well. She twirled her long hair around one finger, while her fair, jade-like legs lay across the Imperial Throne and gently rubbed against each other, producing a sound that stirred the soul. Yet none of the assembled ministers dared raise their heads, as though the one reclining above them was not a beauty capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin, but a hideous and savage monster.
"I have heard that Guangwu's greatest achievement was resisting the tyrannical rule of the usurping ministers of Former Xuan, while