This is a well-documented epic about women's business in the Tang Dynasty. It tells the collision of modern thinking and ancient systems, and shows a real counterattack that does not rely on golden fingers.
Zhou Libai, a doctor of modern agriculture, accidentally traveled to the rural areas of Guanzhong during the Zhenguan period and became a penniless daughter of a tenant farmer. Relying on modern agricultural knowledge, she improved the curved shaft plow and invented a foot-operated silk reeling machine. She escaped from the predicament of being on the verge of starvation and gradually accumulated wealth. However, as she stepped into the West City of Chang'an and got acquainted with the mixed-race Hu merchant Zheng Yu and the mysterious nobleman Yang Yun, Zhou Libai gradually discovered that: the farm tools she improved were used for military supplies, the lamps she invented concealed star maps, and Yang Yun was even more involved in the unsolved mystery of the hidden prince Li Jiancheng.
In the Tang Dynasty, when women were constrained, Zhou Libai, as a "female householder", dealt with aristocratic families and court dignitaries. From country houses to Silk Road caravans, from water transport crises to palace conspiracies, she used modern wisdom to resolve crises, but she accidentally got involved in a larger political whirlpool. As her business territory expands, she must make a choice between wealth and conscience, love and survival...
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