The conquest of oneself is the rarest conquest in the chronicle
This lesson plays out across 1 chapter of the chronicle. Read where it was learned — and what it cost.
- The Mirror on the ThroneTang Dynasty — Zhenguan (Depth) · 627 AD - 649 AD
The fratricide of the Xuanwu Gate becomes the model emperor. Taizong, Wei Zheng, and the twenty-two years in which a man who murdered his brothers governed so well that history forgave him -- because he hired a man whose job was to refuse him.