Thrice Revive the Han: Starting from the Prince of Beidi

In the sixth year of Jingyao, Liu Chen, the Prince of Beidi, slew his family and offered them as a sacrifice at the ancestral temple, propping up the very last spine of Shu Han. Yet what the history books omit is this: in the first year of Jingyao, Liu Chen was stopped cold by a single question from an old veteran. “Your Highness,” the man asked, “if it had not rained that day at Shangfang Valley… would the Han still have fought?” Liu Chen had no answer. If he could not even safeguard his own stipend, how could he claim to speak for the Han? But he remembered. The old warriors who had bled for the kingdom were coming to collect their due—and the Han, he realized, owed the people a great debt. Liu Chen began his investigation from the embezzlement of his own monthly allowance. Others mocked him for leading three thousand aged and infirm soldiers across treacherous mountains to certain death, but in truth, he was tilling and redistributing land at Zitong—granting fields to every veteran, to every soul the Han had wronged. Guided by Liu Bang himself, the spirits of Han Xin, Xiao He, Cao Can, and other founding heroes of the dynasty bestowed their hard-won wisdom upon Liu Chen. In that moment, he understood: the realm rightfully belonged to all its people, not to a single bloodline. His path would not be easy. The iron hooves of the Five Barbarians were poised to ravage the Central Plains, with millions of Han sons reduced to mere "two-legged livestock," and the very fabric of Han civilization on the verge of extinction. At sixty years of age, Liu Chen drew his blade once more. The inscription on the sword gleamed with undying resolve: “Han and its foes shall never share the same sky.” One by one, he repaid every debt the Han had incurred. One stroke at a time, he stood against every calamity that befell the land of Hua Xia. This is the untold half of history—the story of Liu Chen, the Prince of Beidi.