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Amazing right? Imagine being held on par with Zhang Liang, Zhuge Liang, Guo Ziyi, Yue Fei, Li Bai, Sima Qian and so on. All are the best of the best of Chinese civilisation.

Sun Ben is the actual brother of Sun Taizhen. He was adopted by the King of Wuyue (along with many other noble children of other families) before the King had his own child later in life. Sun Ben is originally from the Huanglong island family.

The opening is actually way better than the ending but sadly no MV so far.

Yeah basically Jiangnan has been famous for its rich trade-based economy and its abundant literati. So many brilliant minds came from Jiangnan over two thousand years of Chinese history.

The personal visit to the central kingdom, and participating in the defence of Kaifeng most probably is fictional. The writer most probably used it as a plot device to tie up all three main leads together, to depict their vision for a unified nation.

Chai Rong's will and vision got inherited by Zhao Kuangyin and then Qian Hongchu fulfilled it after the passing of ZKY.

Btw he's one of the Peerless Heroes immortalised in Wu Shuang Pu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Shuang_Pu

Got it from the "usual" torrent site. Up to episode 8 now.

Just finished episode 8 and it's really good.

Episode 8 is so good! Best one so far.

It will get worse. Basically karma bites. We'll see that much later.

The true villain is in the far north, but won't live long. Hope to see him soon.

The subs are terrible. So many mistakes and wrongly translated terms.

Chai Rong finally appeared!

Yeah as usual many chinese shows are badly translated. I have a thing against how court titles, rankings and so on are translated. Those are wrong.

Yeah because it jumps back and forth between the main central government under Later Jin, and the smaller state Wu Yue which is far to the southeast coast.

Yeah haha things are moving too fast and characters come and go (killed off) so fast I'm now struggling to keep up. We'll most probably seen the Khitan invasion soon since Shi Chonggui will say FU to the Khitans unlike the previous emperor.

General Guo Wei will emerge and then his adopted son Guo Rong (Chai Rong).

The first episode was so well shot. Awesome cinematography.

It's just pure chaos and fast shifting borders.

For those who have played Where Winds Meet the game, this is set in the same timeline.

Shi Jintang is the emperor who gave away the Sixteen Prefectures. Zhao Kuangyin (aka Big Zhao) is the son of the deputy commander of the imperial guards. Wuyue is a state far away to southeast coast, further from Southern Tang.

The wiki didn't consider the adopted sons. In the drama, the adopted ones are part of the elderly hierarchy