The Little Cobbler's Ascension

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. However, that night, a masked man swaps one of the boys for a baby girl. Following this, the family is hunted down and forced to go into hiding to escape. The cobbler's family becomes involuntarily embroiled in a cruel and ruthless court conspiracy. It turns out that despite having three palaces, six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines, the current emperor, in his fifties, has birthed twenty-six princesses but has not fathered a single son. The Ning and Feng concubines compete for favor and falsely report that they are pregnant with a dragon seed. After several twists and turns, the Ning concubine ends up giving birth to a daughter and, in desperation, uses a swap to replace her daughter with the cobbler's son. Meanwhile, the Feng concubine fails to conceive and has to bring her sister's son to fill in. Sixteen years later, the swapped cobbler's son is now the Crown Prince, titled Prince Yiqin, who is debauched, cruel, and engages in all sorts of evil deeds. In contrast, the little cobbler remains pure, kind-hearted, talented, and broad-minded. The real emperor's daughter flourishes in the little cobbler's home, appearing as beautiful as a fairy, and they have been childhood sweethearts. As the Prince Yiqin is about to be officially designated as the Crown Prince to inherit the throne, hints of the swap from sixteen years ago begin to surface. Prince Yiqin takes a group of assassins out of the palace to kill his twin brother to silence him. The emperor dispatches court servant Wuchang to retrieve Prince Yiqin, but mistakenly escorts the little cobbler, believing him to be the prince, into the capital. Sixteen years ago, the newly appointed top scholar Hu Xixi and the eunuch Xiao Shunzi, seeking revenge for past grievances, "package" the little cobbler to falsely pass him off as Prince Yiqin. On the way to the capital, he seeks to deliver justice for the people and punish corrupt officials, gaining the affection of the masses. In the Golden Throne Hall, the entire court, after various evaluations, intentionally or unintentionally promotes the little cobbler to the throne while ousting Prince Yiqin to live as a little cobbler. After ascending to the throne, the new emperor, understanding the people's sentiments and well-versed in their hearts, compares governing the country to cobbling, winning the hearts of officials and citizens alike, and the fortunes of the nation begin to prosper.