Last Emperor's Scholar Zhang Jian

Author: Wang Wei
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Due to taking an exam under a false name, he was hunted by the authorities and fled in a rainstorm. To save the nation through industry, he dared to offend the powerful and abandoned his official post to enter business. He was a successor to the imperial tutor Weng Tonghe and had a brotherly affection for the Guangxu Emperor, while also filled with pity for him. He was both loved and hated by the Empress Dowager Cixi. Cixi suspected that his efforts to save the nation through industry were aimed at establishing a new dynasty and threw him in prison. Later, she hosted a banquet for him and Yuan Shikai, hoping they could save China from crisis. While he was imprisoned, the beautiful Ling'er rescued him from afar. This inexplicable love story was also earth-shattering.