Southern Phoenix Returns to Phoenix

She died in poisoned wine and woke up in a mass grave. It took her five years to teach the entire empire what "you are not worthy" means. Gu Yanqing, nineteen years old, was given poisonous wine and committed suicide after being deposed. The dose of poisonous wine has been tampered with. She crawled out of the shallow grave in the mass grave, walked south alone and barefoot. The miasmatic land of southern Xinjiang was inhabited by refugees, fugitives, and bandits. The imperial court regarded it as a barbaric wilderness and was unwilling to even collect taxes. There she built her first palapa. Starting from a bite of edible wild vegetables, starting from a group of refugees who couldn't survive, starting from a wooden waterwheel that diverted water up the mountain - it took her two years to turn a barbaric valley into a Nanzhuang where there were no lost objects on the road. It took three years to get Chen Guo, the strongest among the six southern countries, to take the initiative to cede land and borrow grain. It took five years to make the system she designed run on the ruins of the old dynasty. Then she resigned from the ruling position and turned towards the seaside. She didn't claim to be emperor. Later generations called her "the mother of reform." And the starting point of all this was just the words she said in her heart while kneeling on the futon in the cold palace and holding the poisonous wine: "As long as people don't die, the debt can be settled."