There were guards in the archive room, but when they saw the golden token in Zu An’s hands, they immediately showed great respect and no longer troubled him. After all, golden token envoys were second only in status to the chief commander. There were even some who offered to help him search for what he needed, but Zu An refused.

He entered the archives room on his own. Worrying that someone might notice something, he checked records from several different sections, and only read up on some of the things he really wanted to know in between them.

After staying for four hours, he finally found out some things.

What he had wanted information about was naturally the previous dynasty. He wanted to know about what had happened during the transitional period too. As he read through the records, he learned that the previous dynasty had been named Meng. The emperor who had established that dynasty was also a powerful ruler with outstanding sons.

Unfortunately, having sons who were too outstanding wasn’t always a good thing. The more outstanding they were, the more unwilling they were to just remain as citizens. All of them had wanted to fight for the throne.

In the end, the crown prince...