[Rural girl’s comeback + imperial examinations and political intrigue + growth as a female official + farming and infrastructure]
Others rely on their writing to pass the imperial examinations. She relies on farming to climb to the top!
✔ Improves rice seeds, doubles the yield per acre, and astonishes the Ministry of Revenue
✔ Promotes agricultural techniques, earns the people’s support, and becomes famous throughout the prefecture
✔ Enters officialdom through agriculture and earns an exceptional promotion, stunning the imperial court
As she makes her way from the field ridges to the Golden Throne Hall, every high-ranking official bows before her
“How can a woman hold office?”
She tosses out a petition signed by the people: “Without me, Hu Shuangshuang, would your granaries feed everyone in this realm?”
[Bonus Scene]
At a court assembly one day, an old minister berated her: “A woman entering the court violates our ancestral rules!”
The young chancellor calmly stepped forward. “The ancestral rules also say that food is the people’s first priority. Lord Shen has increased state revenues by thirty percent. She deserves the credit.”
Later, the history books recorded: In the first year of Jinghe, a female official entered the court, and the scent of rice blossoms filled the steps of white jade.
I have to give it full marks 💯, it is really well written, the language is vivid and humorous.