[Tang] I Became a Famous General in the Zhou Dynasty

After Shang Ling died in a car accident, she was bound to a famed-minister system.

[You've transmigrated to the Tang dynasty. If you can start from the start as a commoner, pass the imperial exams, become a famed minister of your age, and help the emperor usher in a golden age...]

Shang Ling rolled her eyes and cut it off. "Sure, you dragged me here and you don't even know how many uprisings happened during the reigns of all those Li family emperors? A golden age? My advice is to go straight to sleep and dream. That's more realistic."

[It is now the sixth year of Yonghui.]

Shang Ling: "But speaking of which... how am I supposed to take the imperial exams? By the time I finish studying, Wu Zhao will have taken the throne, won't she?"

[Please rest assured, Host. The System has prepared a cheat package for you. As long as you max out your political stats, you will definitely??? Host, what are you doing?!]

Shang Ling, who had just maxed out her military stats: Don't worry about it. This future famed minister has her own plan.

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In the fourth year of Xianqing, an imperial examination scandal rocked the court.

Illiterate scions of aristocratic clans bribed examiners, causing Shang Ling, who should have passed, to fail.

From then on, the world lost an examinee determined to pass the imperial exams and gained an invincible rebel general. First she slaughtered a whole host of aristocratic clans, then she marched as if through an empty land all the way to Xuanmen Pass, her sword pointed straight at Luoyang.

With the entire court at a loss, Empress Wu proposed offering amnesty to the rebels and personally tried to persuade the "Heaven-Shaking Great General" to surrender.

The histories record: The founding empress was peerless in wisdom and valor, and subdued the Grand Marshal of the Realm.

Later generations would call that day the opening of the legendary Wu Zhou dynasty.

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Many years later.

Standing on the cherry-blossom-covered land of the island nation she had just conquered, Shang Ling tapped her firearm and argued with the System. "I just crushed the Japanese. Why won't you let me claim the final reward?"

System: "I've told you eight hundred times, I'm a famed-minister system! A famed minister! Who told you to go to war, you brute?"

Shang Ling silently produced a seal of office. "How am I not a famed minister?"

System: :-)

P.S.:

1. A self-indulgent, carefree, feel-good power fantasy. The whole story is emphatically set in an alternate history, a very alternate history, with no concern for historical accuracy. Ages and timelines will be adjusted to serve the plot.

2. The golden finger is extremely powerful. The female lead serves as both general and minister, but is more focused on military affairs. She's a human nuclear weapon for the Wu Zhou dynasty, a fan of Empress Wu, and hates all emperors of the Li Tang dynasty equally. Please enter with caution if this bothers you.

3. There is a romance, but it doesn't take up much space. Empress Wu is and always will be the most important person to the female lead, which is why Empress Wu is listed as the other name in the main character field.

4. Updates will be irregular before the story gets featured, then follow the feature schedule. Thanks for reading, sending love.

Theme: Making up for regrets