Xiao Xin was born into the ancient world and became the third-generation grandson of the Dazhao dynasty, enfeoffed as Prince of Wu. There was no chance of her getting involved in the succession struggle in this life, so she just had to wait until she was sent to her fief and enjoy a comfortable life.
After all, she had no golden finger to clear the way, no powerful maternal clan to back her up, and no male equipment... She'd spent sixteen years disguised as a boy, constantly on edge and afraid of being found out.
Then one day, a tremendous boom sounded, and the sky screen appeared!
[Hi, everyone! Today's episode is about the Dazhao dynasty you've all been asking us to cover! Naturally, we'll be talking about the most pioneering and dazzling emperor in the Dazhao dynasty's six or seven centuries of history:]
[No wonder Dazhao's destiny was so great! In thousands of years, there has never been another emperor who could reclaim lost borderlands and expand the territory, wipe out pirates so coastal residents could live without fear, grow crops yielding a thousand catties per mu so everyone could eat their fill, and conquer terrifying diseases like smallpox, sepsis, and malaria... the one and only emperor through the ages!]
Xiao Xin: That's amazing! Who is it?
[Most importantly, under her rule, women's status kept rising. This is an unprecedented and unparalleled achievement!!! Today, every woman who can read, write, work, and earn money should thank our great ancestor!]
[The golden age of the Dazhao dynasty, ushered in by our founding Emperor Mingzhao, Xiao Xin, is one that no one in later dynasties would have wished to be born outside of!]
Xiao Xin felt conflicted: ...
You're talking about me?
No one found out I was a woman?
[As everyone knows, our great ancestor was a prince who disguised herself as a man! We don't find it strange at all, and are even happy to see women in leadership. But in an era of feudal backwardness, when the scholar-officials held sway over public opinion, our ancestor's position was rather awkward...]
[But who was our great ancestor?! She could take the head of the Northern Mongol leader by her own hand, and make the border tribes tremble just by announcing her name. Governing people and ruling a state were as easy as pie for her!]
[In thousands of years of history, across the world and nearly two hundred nations, there has only ever been one founding Emperor Mingzhao of Dazhao, Xiao Xin, the only emperor ever to take the name of their dynasty as their posthumous title! (Proud!) Just look at how envious and jealous those people in the West are when they learn we have an ancestor like this!]
Xiao Xin: Oh? How interesting.
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1. The characters are fictional. Please don't associate them with historical figures.
2. Alternate history, with blended dynastic settings. A lighthearted, satisfying read.
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Sky Screen Spoilers: My Son Is Three and a Half, but He's an Emperor for the Ages, by Ling Wan
Shen Youzhi awakened memories of her past life and remembered that she'd died of illness. Now she was the lowly wife of a distant branch of the Daqi imperial clan. Her mother-in-law was a professional embroiderer, her husband was an idle layabout, and her three-and-a-half-year-old son was sitting on the threshold, reciting the Three Character Classic with a bobbing head.
Her father-in-law had died the year before, bringing their family's noble title to an end. With no more stipends to collect, they were barely getting by. To preserve the dignity of their noble family, they'd bought silk and new clothes, then brought home a cartload of new grain. Their purse was emptier than their faces were clean.
Shen Youzhi sighed at the sky. She wanted to be able to eat meat and spend money freely. But when she squeezed the soft purse in her hand, there wasn't a single copper coin left.
She planned to have her husband find a proper job first, then make some novel snacks of her own to sell to their wealthy relatives.
Who could have guessed that one day the sky screen would appear...
[After Emperor Chengde had three sons in a row who all died young, he never had another son in his life. An emperor with no heirs: how terrifying!]
What? No heirs? The third prince would die too?
Everyone stole complicated glances at Emperor Chengde and the third prince in the empress's arms.
Emperor Chengde's face turned livid. "Call the imperial physician and keep the third prince safe."
[Emperor Chengde did countless wicked things and suffered the retribution of having no heirs. But before he died, at least he did one thing right: he passed the throne to the most promising bloodline in the Ji imperial clan, Ji Shicong.
He pacified the northern barbarians, quelled the chaos, restored the realm, brought peace to the people, and ushered in Daqi's golden age. Later generations called him an emperor for the ages, one who had the founding achievements of Qin's King Ying Zheng and the governing talent of Li Erfeng!]
Ignoring the sky screen's insults, Emperor Chengde gave an order: "Find someone. We must find him!"
But they searched every imperial clansman in the capital and couldn't find anyone named Ji Shicong.
Could he not have been born yet?
In the Shen family's courtyard, all three of them looked at Xiao Chong, who never forgot to recite his lessons even while eating. A few days ago, his father had asked a passing scholar to give him a proper name. It was Ji Shicong!
Three-year-old Xiao Chong didn't yet know he had a proper name. He asked curiously, "Mother, do I have rice on my face?"
Shen Youzhi came to her senses as if waking from a dream. My son is an emperor for the ages!
He's only three and a half!!!
Theme: Great achievements aren't limited by gender
Yao, too much competition and too much competition. In the way! Every important matter is important now. Do you want to fight for your share? It's really an eyesore. Failure [knock on the wooden fish] [knock on the wooden fish] [white eyes] [white eyes]
??? The heroine privately encouraged her father to not be soft on her grandma and seize power boldly, or she encouraged internal fighting under the premise that her father had already sent the top manager under her grandma into the bureau, so that the relationship between mother and son became tense. Then you tell me that the heroine was so proud that she said, "I am doing this for peace, and for the employees at the bottom of the company to get a guaranteed salary. I will do it again." No, no, tell me how the ministers found out from this incident that the heroine was a heir apparent? [Loading] How about you explain a few more sentences? For example, let's list a famous saying, "The fisherman gets the advantage when the snipe and the clam fight", and then the heroine snickers and thinks that the two idiots above are dog-eat-dog and have no energy to pay attention to the heroine's troubles. Only in this way can we truly delegate power and let the heroine do practical things for the people. This explanation is at least more reasonable and logical, and it does not set up a moral arch. Don't let the ministers comment on the heroine. Which worker would care about leading the family affairs? It's all a dead salary, who pays it? Where do these ministers stand and what qualifications do they have to evaluate the leadership's family affairs? Could it be that because the Queen Mother's top manager died, others were thinking, "Oh, he kicked off his body first, when will the internal fighting escalate and let me kick off too?" This is too ridiculous, isn't it? Who is the second generation emperor of this dynasty and let the courtiers come here looking for death? None of the ministers in the Hu Hai period of Qin II had their heads stabbed like this. As the direct victim in this matter, the Queen Mother was present at the same time as the Emperor, so the Queen Mother should be allowed to speak. The moment she opened her eyes, she was an unfilial descendant. Her emotions should be the most intense and conflicting! I can't, I can't stand it anymore. It's really hard for young authors to write articles. It's reasonable that they can't detect problems during self-examination, but you have to explain when you should. Otherwise, where do the words come from and where do they go? No matter how outrageous the plot is, even if you write in this chapter, "Fighting between two people consumes too much resources, otherwise I will bring a cup of poison to the dog emperor and kill him, so that there will be only one queen mother and she will have to fight wits and courage with the air." It will be readable after you explain it this way, but your explanation is not as good as the heroine's cowardice in the last second. Instigating infighting between parents, the next moment the worker praises "the instigation is very good, this son has the appearance of an emperor", the next moment the heroine believes that she is standing on the moral high ground and believes that instigating infighting can bring benefits to the people, and she applauds herself inwardly and praises herself for standing upright and awesome... Where is the logic, where is the point of pride? Heroine, are you the protagonist of a historical novel who pretends to be a pig and eats the tiger, or are you a royalist minister? Why are you so proud of instigating infighting? Shouldn't you be proud of gaining military power in a civil war? In ancient times, the power of princes was obtained from the feudal class and military power, not from political correctness. If we really want to be correct, why doesn't the prince shout the slogan "LGBT"? 🤔
When talking about the theory of destiny, the reaction of the courtiers "Isn't it just like this? It has historical basis" is really too witty. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was mentioned in the previous article, I believe that Hanwen and Hanjing were not lost by butterflies. Then you should know that there are many emperors who reduced taxes and lightened corvees. There are also some who were exempted for a few years. There is no shortage of heroines. What is missing is effective. So since the Han Dynasty is mentioned, the Qin Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period going forward must also be still there? As we all know, the theory of the induction of heaven and man was established during the period when the Han Dynasty deposed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism. So why did natural disasters have nothing to do with emperors before the Han Dynasty? Ministers are all educated people. They have learned a little bit about the Spring and Autumn Period or Confucius's famous sayings and deeds in the past. They should have a little reflection, right? Therefore, for the argument that natural disasters show that emperors are immoral, there must be at least a few ministers who understand in their hearts and pretend to be confused on the surface, and be wise, wise, wise, otherwise the heroine will look like she is trying to fry a new game in a fish pond. A group of goldfish will not show the heroine's personality charm!!!!
The protagonist's gender was revealed on the screen, didn't anyone notice? Do you still want to establish a prince?
""Mother, the curtain of this sky has been..." This is a big bug for the author~ It's been a long time coming - It's been a long time coming
I originally read this book. Last time I abandoned it because of the male protagonist and his family.
According to the explanation, the next emperor is the elder sister. Why? The younger brother is obviously more qualified to be emperor. If the protagonist doesn't choose a better one, what is the reason for choosing the elder sister to be the emperor? The protagonist himself is neither a direct descendant nor a male, so he should be a virtuous person. Especially since you have already seen the sky curtain, it is not very understandable for you to stand still.
This episode feels a bit strange
This male protagonist is really a failure, it would be better not to have him at all
Now that we are all crown princes, what will happen to the few more people? [Question mark]