I opened my eyes to find that I, a top national engineering academician, had become the empress of the Ming Dynasty?
And not just any empress, but the wife of Chongzhen, history's famously ill-fated emperor!
Looking at my breathtaking face in the mirror, then remembering the ending in the history books, “hanged himself on Coal Hill,” I grabbed paper and a pen on the spot. I knew how to solve this one! Wasn't it just a matter of saving a dying dynasty with the scientific outlook on development?
On our wedding night, my future husband, who was destined to hang himself, was in a funk. I knocked on his door. “Your Highness, I've run the numbers. Our family has seventeen years before it goes under.”
He thought I'd gone mad.
That is, until I dragged him into the kitchen to conduct distillation experiments, used thermal expansion and contraction to predict the weather, and shoved a simple microscope in his face to show him the mites on his hand. “Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty's greatest enemy might not even be as big as this bug.”
From then on, everything went completely off the rails:
While everyone else schemed in the palace, we did scientific research.
Wei Zhongxian sent me poisonous rouge? I hit back with a chemical test, making a silver needle turn black right in front of everyone.
The ministers called me a “wicked empress meddling in state affairs”? I opened a technical school for women, taught the palace maids physics and nursing, then used potato yield figures to leave the old scholars speechless at the Imperial College.
Huang Taiji invaded? I calmly pulled out the manual for an improved Portuguese cannon and sent a recipe for self-heating military rations to the front lines.
Later on:
Li Zicheng became the head of my water conservancy engineering corps.
Xu Guangqi and Song Yingxing fought to become honorary disciples in my laboratory.
As for Chongzhen and me?
He took care of arguing with people at court, while I slipped him “science cheat sheets” behind the scenes.
Who says a couple presiding over a fallen dynasty can't be a team of top students?
I like it very much. The characters in it feel like they all have their own characteristics.
To be honest, I have read so many novels and this one is a masterpiece!
It's beautiful. The more you go to the back, the more amazing it becomes. The world view is huge, logical and emotional, and delicate.
Believe me, you must read the back. It was the first time I read this type of book and it really amazed me.
Not enough, not enough! Other books are three points worse than this one
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This is the first time I write a review after reading a book for so long. I am not very educated. But I still want to recommend this good book to everyone. It is definitely worth reading for newbies.
This book has clear logic and tight plot. It is worth reading by book lovers. It must be praised! It must be praised!
The author writes very well, it is really beyond the comparison of ordinary people.
I like the wise heroine so much. The story line and emotional line are great, and the plot is not procrastinating. I can't stop watching it.