The Daughter of Chemistry: the Machiavellian Empire

Shen Lingwei, a doctor of modern chemistry, traveled through the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms due to a laboratory explosion, and became a bullied concubine in the Ministry of Household Affairs. Her aunt, Mrs. Li, regarded her as a piece of grass, while her aunt, Shen Mingyu, regarded her as a stepping stone. A draft order pushed her into the deep palace purgatory. Facing the harem's frame-up, she used chemical knowledge as a sharp edge, used silver mirror reaction to expose the frame-up conspiracy, used sulfur purification technology to prove her innocence, and gradually emerged from the dust of Yeting Palace. She used laboratory thinking to dismantle the chess game of power: using distilled spirits to prevent smallpox, using sampling and weighing methods to reveal the shortage of water transportation, improving gunpowder to defeat the Beidi cavalry, and using the aniline purple monopoly to open a financial empire. When the gentry criticized that "women are not allowed to participate in politics", she subverted the imperial examination to obtain scholars by "studying things to gain knowledge", used the "salt and ice method" to surprise the Beidi royal court, and finally became the first female emperor of the Yong Dynasty. From the laboratory to the court, from concubine to emperor, Shen Lingwei used the periodic table of elements to reconstruct the power structure and used chemical reaction equations to deduce the general trend of the world. In this game intertwined with poison and gunpowder smoke, conspiracy and change, she is not only a machinist who stirs up the storm, but also a pioneer who uses scientific fire to illuminate the darkness of the Middle Ages.