From a rural orphan to a female prime minister, she rewrote the salt policy and changed the unspeakable fate of women for thousands of years.
A flood caused Lin Qingluan to lose everything, but it could not destroy her talent for photographic memory and her calm mind. By chance, she was enlightened by a former female official, and she stepped into the chess game of the male-dominated world as a woman. From a county school auditor to a female official who breaks the rules and enters the court, every step he takes steps on the cracks of secular rules.
The salt policy reform that shocked the government and the public was her sharpest knife - in three years, the price of salt dropped from thirty cents to fifteen cents, the wages of kitchen households tripled, and millions of people could afford salt for the first time. However, the web of interests that were touched also hit overwhelmingly: assassinations, frame-ups, betrayal of allies... In the center of the storm of the prince's inheritance, she dealt with it with wisdom and used the people's support as a shield.
At her peak moment, she submitted her resignation at the canonization ceremony. She didn't want the twenty-five-year-old Shangshu, a first-grade imperial edict. Returning to the original small village, she no longer picked up a memorial, but a piece of chalk - to open a girls' school and spread the fire of knowledge to a wider wilderness.
This is not a story about a counterattack to the top, but a life practice about "retiring after success". Lin Qingluan spent ten years proving that women can change the court, and then spent the rest of her life proving that true strength is knowing why you came and where you should go back.
The heights of temples and the distances of rivers and lakes are all monasteries. Where the green luan spreads its wings, the mountains and rivers make sounds.
