Qiu Qiong had died once before. In her previous life, she was the eldest daughter of Yinzhi, Prince Zhijun. After being sent to marry into a Mongol clan, she lived only to the age of twenty-three. After her death, she drank the Meng Po soup and reincarnated in the twenty-first century.
She studied and learned to read and write, born in the spring breeze and raised under the red flag. After finally passing the postgraduate entrance exam and preparing to pursue further studies in education, she died at twenty-three while saving a child who ran across the road. Her soul returned to her first life, when she was four years old.
Her second sister threw tantrums, demanding their mother. Her third sister could barely walk. Her frail fourth sister was held by a wet nurse. Their father swept out without a backward glance, and their mother fainted. Qiu Qiong felt the weight on her shoulders grow heavier and heavier.
Her unreliable father wanted to become Crown Prince? Fine. He could be imprisoned until death and denounced by Kangxi as a "rebel and traitor."
Her mother, who was deceived by a man into bearing child after child? Fine. The history books clearly recorded that all four daughters and one son died young, while the Prince of Zhijun had fourteen other sons and ten daughters.
As for her three little sisters, early childhood education, nine years of compulsory schooling, Chinese, math, English, physics, chemistry, biology, geography, history... They would learn everything, and surely something would suit each of them!
Don't ask. The eldest princess spends every day in tears, saving this shattered family.
Her father, who joined the struggle among the Nine Princes, started slacking off at work, but Kangxi liked him more and more.
Her mother, weakened after giving birth to four daughters, started doing the Eight-Section Brocade to build up her strength, and beat the Prince of Zhijun whenever she felt like it. But Consort Hui treated her more and more like her own daughter.
The second princess was a crack shot and a skilled horsewoman, with a passion for weapons manufacturing. She spent all day in the armory and eventually became the Qing Empire's foremost firearms engineer.
The third princess was a whiz with an abacus. She got into maritime trade and partnered with the Ninth Prince, doing business all over the world. "If you can do it, then do it. If you can't, my second sister will beat you all flat."
The fourth princess looked frail, but was actually a super-strong girl who could carry fifty jin of rice on her shoulders. She loved discovering new crops, and established seed banks and agricultural academies. When the people prospered, the nation prospered.
As for Qiu Qiong, who set her whole family and even the nation on a path of transformation, she watched with satisfaction as the education system was gradually reformed and diversified.
"I told you, education is the foundation of a nation!"
Tips: 1. This is not a historically accurate story. Just have fun with it.
2. My profile has a completed Qing Dynasty transmigration story, The Seventh Princess.
3. If you spot an unreasonable plot hole, it's because my brain crashed after coming home from my office job.
Theme: Reading and learning can change the world