Yuanyuan immediately slapped her: "How dare you!"

Xie Zhaozhao gently raised her hand, and Yuanyuan stepped aside.

Guan Yingying was still stunned and didn't feel any pain even after being slapped.

How is that possible? Xie Zhaozhao became the emperor?

In her two lifetimes, Xie Zhaozhao was always a noblewoman with extremely strict rules. She walked with a graceful back and even steps, and the hair ornaments on her head never moved.

She often mocked Xie Zhaozhao for being like a wooden doll, the most boring person ever.

How could such a well-behaved woman rebel and become empress?

How is that possible?

"What happened to you? How did you become emperor?" Guan Yingying asked, her face full of disbelief.

Xie Zhaozhao was very satisfied to see her in such a state of collapse.

He didn't answer her, letting her break down on her own for a while.

"How could you possibly become emperor? Didn't you always stay at home and never leave your residence?"

"Yes, when I was a noble lady, the rules were the highest."

"How did you become emperor? And what's the story behind the Jade Dragon Kingdom?"

"I led my troops to conquer the world and established the Jade Dragon Kingdom."

"You, lead troops? Since when have you ever fought a war?"

Seeing her surprised and jealous expression, Xie Zhaozhao asked in return, "Aren't you from a thousand years in the future? I've heard that in your time, men and women were equal and had the right and obligation to receive education. So, you must know what it takes to win a war."

"Rely on intelligence, rely on weapons."

"That's right. Since war isn't about brute force, why can't I strategize and plan? You know, Zhuge Liang debated with the Confucian scholars, Sun Bin relieved Zhao by besieging Wei, and Zhou Yu burned the Red Cliffs. Civil officials outwitted their opponents, which was more effective than military generals fighting each other."

Guan Yingying was speechless, but she was very unconvinced: "I learned about this systematically in middle school, and there are many more examples of outsmarting others than this."

She's learned all of that, but she still doesn't know how to use it!

"Although I did not attend an academy, I still have tutors who provide me with meticulous instruction. The education of noble ladies is no less rigorous than that of you."

"Where did you get your soldiers? In a patriarchal feudal society, how could they possibly let you sit on the throne?"

I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out.

"All the soldiers were raised by me little by little."

"Making an army? Where do you get the money?"

"The Maritime Silk Road!"

"You, you also opened up the Maritime Silk Road?"

"Remove the word 'also,' and of all the Silk Roads in the world, only I have opened them."

"No wonder... Ah, ah," Guan Yingying was even more distraught than when she was in prison.

She received nine years of compulsory education, went to high school, took the college entrance examination, and studied at university for four years, including advanced mathematics, advanced physics, and various professional courses... Why couldn't she learn from an ancient woman who never left her home?

She said through gritted teeth, "Didn't you still climb to the throne by sacrificing the corpses of the people? In our time, people were the most precious thing. We didn't fight with swords and axes; we used advanced weapons."

"Oh, tell me about it?"

"You know about explosives, right? Ever heard of them? With a single boom, an entire mountain can be leveled..." Guan Yingying said proudly, "Who's like you ancient people, where people were hacked to death!"

"Explosives? Is this it?" She wrote some words on the paper and gestured for Yuanyuan to show it to the girl.

Guan Yingying took the paper and stared in shock at its contents: "How did you know?"

The paper read: 1 part sulfur, 2 parts saltpeter, 3 parts charcoal. Saltpeter is 75%, sulfur is 12.5%, and charcoal is 12.5%.

Guan Yingying was going crazy: "How did you know? How do you know this recipe?"

Xie Zhaozhao felt a sense of relief seeing the genuine fear in her eyes!

It seems that Guan Yingying has deleted the chat logs from her mind that drove her to her death in her previous life.

"I know you've always wanted to develop this weapon, but you haven't succeeded yet, have you?"

"How do you know everything?" Guan Yingying found Xie Zhaozhao absolutely terrifying. "You must be from another time. Tell me, what year are you from?"

"Guan Yingying, I know you've always looked down on people from ancient times, especially a lady from a noble family like me, right? A woman with bound feet? You can't even compare to a woman with bound feet and a bound mind. You've wasted your education. It seems the schools back then didn't teach any practical or useful knowledge!"

"No, we learned all sorts of knowledge at school—Chinese, math, science, physics, chemistry…it's so much more advanced than what you all have!"

Guan Yingying was furious. She might not be as good as Xie Zhaozhao in other aspects, but in terms of cultural knowledge learned in modern times, she absolutely surpassed Xie Zhaozhao.

She struggled to organize her thoughts, speaking in terms Xie Zhaozhao couldn't understand: skyscrapers, cars, highways, high-speed trains, airplanes, cell phones, computers, movies, television, the internet...

Xie Zhaozhao actually envied the world Guan Yingying described. Having lived two lives, she still yearned for the world Guan Yingying came from.

Putting aside everything else, the single principle of gender equality is enough to overturn current perceptions.

Guan Yingying talked for a while, hoping to see envy, jealousy, or hatred on Xie Zhaozhao's face, but she didn't.

Damn Xie Zhaozhao, she doesn't even have a single expression on her face!!

She was a little discouraged; it felt like she'd punched cotton—it was pointless.

Instead of feeling envious or jealous, he said, "So what? It's not yours anyway."

Yes, those things that concern oneself are enjoyed by everyone, but not by oneself.

So what if the economy and technology are lagging behind right now? Xie Zhaozhao is the emperor. She has everything she has right now, even her own life.

A thousand years from now, in a society with rapid economic development, advanced technology, abundant resources, and a pace a thousand times faster than today.

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