Swords were clashing and soldiers were dying by the second. The freshly, blasted, torn earth with blood spilt from the brave warriors under the red sun’s rays. Generals were shouting commands to their army, trying to maneuver troops to counter the enemy‘s attacks. After seven years of fighting for unification, Yang-Li was finally united under Dao Wu Ch'eng, a wise scholar, who negotiated and conquered the twenty kingdoms of Yang-Li to unify the warring kingdoms into a new nation of peace and harmony. Working many years among the people, Wu Ch'eng knew that the people were sick of having to go to war when everything could be resolved by simple negotiations. By having a unified nation, war would not be a daily presence in the people’s lives. Soon after the unification, in the year of 2839 B.C., he was named Emperor Long Kangxi, the first ruler of Yang-Li by the people who said Wu Ch’eng saved the country from the hands of destruction and chaos. In the first hundred days of his reign, Wu Ch’eng passed many laws that certainly helped the people live in peace. His reign soon became known as the Golden Age due to trade and businesses were prospering, harvest brought in much food. Metals begin to appear and …show more content…
Their father still ruled over the people but his days were limited. Soon after the sixty-fifth year of his reign, Wu Ch’eng was laid on his death-bed with a serious illness. Many of the royal physicians were called to treat the emperor but none succeeded. The elderly emperor called his two sons into his room and told them that his time had arrived for his life to come to an end. Shao Yu was greatly saddened to hear that his father could not live any longer. Zhang Gie tried to comfort his brother but there was no purpose to it. Shao Yu locked himself into his room and would not come out for days until he heard that his father better after a few