[Strong Female Lead] [Tang Dynasty Industry] [No System] [Technological Overmatch] [Political Intrigue] [Business Empire]
A modern history buff works herself to death after staying up all night, then wakes up as Li Pingyang, daughter of the legendary poet Li Bai. From the start, her father has faked his death, her mother is coughing up blood, and her wicked uncle is feasting with the clan elders in the mourning hall, ready to seize the family estate. Li Pingyang sneers, takes up her brush, and stuns everyone with a poem for the dead. Then she uses modern dietary therapy to drag her birth mother back from death's door, and even hauls Li Bai out of his coffin.
Think she only knows how to write poetry? Think again. She establishes the Tang Dynasty's first takeaway tavern and creates a reserve-backed system of flying cash recognized even by Persian merchants. Li Linfu wants to destroy her at court? Too bad for him, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War have both left incriminating evidence in her Huajian Ji. An Lushan is planning a rebellion? Armored steamships seal off the Yellow River, hot-air balloons drop incendiary oil on Xiangji Temple, and Tang firearms crush the rebels with a level of technology they can't match!
When Emperor Suzong lies gravely ill and the entire court curses her as a woman usurping a man's role, she lifts the beaded curtain and tells the world, with her capital, railways, ironclad ships, and cannons: From now on, I make the rules of this Tang Dynasty!
