On the day Shen Zhao entered the palace, he only had three things on him: a pen, half a page of scraps of paper, and one life.
Her father was a criminal in the 17th year of Yongchang. He died in the imperial edict. The closing file said "liaison with a foreign vassal". She didn't believe it. So she entered the palace - not to compete for favor, but to check files.
The youngest official in the palace, a ninth-grade female historian, does the most humble errands: copying documents and managing archives. But for two hundred years in the palace, all unjust cases, abolitions, lives and deaths will eventually end up on paper. Whoever controls the paper controls everyone's life.
The imperial concubine made a fuss about her life experience, so she spread it out and received the punishment first; someone took away her father's case file, so she made a law and ordered every page in the harem to be filed, and no one could change it; the Prime Minister's Office made a fake file to kill her, so she registered the fake stuff and put it in the treasury - the fake ones were registered and the real ones were under the control of the real ones.
From the ninth-grade female history, to the Si Ji, to the Shang Palace, and then to the hanging curtain.
The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty had been arguing for three months: there had never been a female prime minister in this dynasty.
She handed over the copied edict and simply said: "Precedents are meant to be broken."
——On top of Danqi, she stood still.
Purpose: Women don't have to be trapped by their status. With a pen and a brain, she earned a position she had never had before in a man's court.
