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In 1671 in the Western Continent, manor production decreased, factories occupied land, and conflicts between nobles and merchants intensified. The Herrera family was in decline. Catalina entered the military academy with her father's sword and her grandfather's half plate armor, integrating aristocratic tenacity and musketry innovation. However, her younger brother brought the family seal to join a businessman. After graduation, she went to the battlefield in southern Xinjiang to break corruption and improve military discipline, win the trust of the Zafar people, and guard the Black Rock Pass to see clearly the entanglements of interests. After returning to the dynasty, businessmen in the capital evaded the royal power. As a military academy instructor, she awakened the students' "duty of protecting the people" and secretly linked up with the conservatives to resist the "marketization of military resources." Although she was exiled to the "Forgotten Corner", she still built a network of contacts. The conservatives in the north and east raised troops. She used condolences to rally her old troops in southern Xinjiang, and went north with foreign aid. She divided the land and released grain to win the hearts of the people, and finally broke through the Black Rock Pass and captured the merchant leader. After the victory, she refused to "temporarily take charge of the government affairs" and assisted the royal family in the new administration as a "guardian", finding a balance between the old and new rules, and becoming the pillar of the kingdom's "maintenance of roots" and "resilience". To be continued