The Little Cobbler Ascends the Throne

This film (drama)Also known as小皮匠登基，is aMainland ChinaProducerbeauty live，At2003Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese，Current Douban rating6.7(For reference only)。

In Yuhang City, there is a cobbler named Shen, who has a pair of twin sons. That night, a masked person swaps one of the boys for a girl. Following this, they endure relentless assassination attempts and are forced to live in hiding. The cobbler's family becomes unfortunately embroiled in a cruel and ruthless palace conspiracy. It turns out that although the current emperor has three palaces, six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines, having already fathered twenty-six princesses, he still has no son. The Ning and Feng concubines compete for favor and deceitfully report that they are pregnant with a dragon's seed. After a series of troubles, the Ning concubine gives birth to a daughter, and in desperation, she uses a swapping scheme to replace her daughter with the cobbler's son. Meanwhile, the Feng concubine, who is unable to conceive, resorts to adopting her sister's son to fill the gap. Sixteen years later, the cobbler's son, who was swapped into the palace, has been named Prince Yi and is known for his debauchery, cruelty, and wickedness. In contrast, the little cobbler outside is pure-hearted, kind, talented, and broad-minded. The true daughter of the emperor grows up beautifully at the little cobbler's home and shares a childhood friendship and romantic bond with him. When Prince Yi is about to be crowned as the crown prince and inherit the throne, the details of the swap from sixteen years ago begin to surface. Prince Yi leads assassins out of the palace to kill his twin brother and silence him. The emperor sends the eunuch Wuchang to retrieve Prince Yi, but mistakenly escorts the little cobbler into the capital thinking he is Prince Yi. Sixteen years ago, the newly appointed top scholar Hu Xixi and the eunuch Xiaoshunzi, seeking to get revenge for past grievances, conspire to disguise the little cobbler as Prince Yi. On their way to the capital, they seek to deliver justice for the people and punish corrupt officials, gaining widespread support. In the Golden Luan Hall, officials and the emperor, after several rounds of scrutiny, inadvertently push the little cobbler to ascend the throne, while they send Prince Yi out of the palace to become the little cobbler. After the new emperor ascends to the throne, he is sensitive to the people's feelings and thoroughly understands their hearts, equating governing the country with cobbling work. The court grows unified with his rule, and the common people regard him as a wise ruler, leading to the prosperity of the nation from then on.