I am the first and only female general in the Yuan Dynasty.
When I became a general, my son was only eight years old. He was very well behaved. I had met so many children, and I even taught martial arts to the crown prince of the Eastern Palace for a few days. The emperor always said that the crown prince was the best-behaved child in the world, because he was able to learn the Four Books and Five Classics, the arts of a gentleman, the ways of being a monarch, and the art of ruling subordinates very well, and he never complained.
I agreed with the emperor verbally, but in my heart I thought that he had such thoughts because he had never been with my son.
The relationship between the Emperor and I was actually very good, because I did not belong to the Qianli family, nor did I like to associate with other ministers. Moreover, I was a woman without a husband. Apart from fighting, I put all my energy on my son.
My son is sick.
He was only one year old at that time, but he was very thin, with pale lips and blue face. I didn't have much ability at that time, so I couldn't find a good doctor. I only knew that the doctor said that he had a heart disease and needed good medicine to take care of him.
It was almost impossible for me to get the best medicinal materials at that time, but I was unwilling to give up because they were more important than my life.
I worked hard to make money, and fortunately, I lived in a very simple mountain village. Everyone always helped each other. The hunter in the village was not stingy in teaching hunting knowledge to anyone who was willing to learn, and the teacher did not stick to the rule that women could not read too many books like people outside.
Moreover, although I was a woman, I loved reading and hunting to make money, so I was the best at reading at that time, and hunting could also supplement the family income.
My previous life has laid a good foundation for my current survival. Now I have a decent hunting skill, I can write well and can help copy books and write letters to earn money.
But I was still too poor. Ordinary civilians without connections and resources could not hear even a glimmer of real-time news about the best medicinal materials. The turning point came soon. The county where I was located was close to the border. The enemy country was invading, and a prince led his army here.
He was careless for a moment and was surrounded and killed by traitors and enemy troops who had sneaked into the county town on the mountain. I saved him. Later I thought that this was one of the luckiest moments in my later life. I actually saved a prince who was ambitious for the throne and quite powerful.
He survived and made great contributions, so great that all his brothers took him seriously.
So he came to me again. He knew my situation and asked me if I was willing to cooperate with him. He was willing to help me raise my son, and I would help him be a prince who had some weaknesses but was obsessed with love.
I said, "I want to be a general."
He smiled and said to me: "That's exactly what I want."
I didn't go to Beijing with him. He didn't need to go to Beijing. When he came from Beijing, he spread the news that he was here to repay his lifesaver. He was sure that I would agree to cooperate, and his guess was indeed correct.
So in the following months, news came from the capital one after another, such as "The Third Prince is going to make an exception and let his savior join the army", "The Third Prince is raising his savior's son as his own son", "The Third Prince thinks his savior's son has recently taken a liking to collecting medicinal herbs", and "The Third Prince's savior has become a captain of a thousand men through military service".
Of course, no one took the last piece of news seriously, but regarded it as a way for the Third Prince to coax women. Several princes were dismissive of it. Every time the Emperor mentioned him, he looked angry at him for not fighting back, but he never sent anyone to ask for help. Obviously, his plan was very successful.
The only thing he didn't expect was that I really had some ability, that I could really rely on myself to gain recognition from my colleagues and become a captain of a thousand men. No matter how you look at it, all of this should be attributed to my former relatives and friends.
I haven't told you that in my village there was my inarticulate but gentle and tolerant father, my cheerful and cheerful mother, the grandparents next door who were always quarreling but loving, the village chief and his wife who would mediate the disputes among the neighbors all day and organize people to go up the mountain to collect wild animals every day, the teacher who treated everyone equally, and the hunter uncle who was always willing to give advice.
There are so many people, I remember every one of them, I dare not forget them for a moment, because they are all dead, I am afraid that if I don't remember them, no one will remember them.
Massacre of the whole village, this is something I have heard of but never thought would happen to me. I became the relic of our village, and I naturally wanted revenge, so I said that saving the prince was one of the luckiest things in my later life.
Without him, how could I join the army as a woman and rise up smoothly based on my own abilities without being held back by anyone?
A little bit of hatred, a little bit of luck, a little bit of ability, and a little bit of worry, combined together to make me. I took over a piece of land, one of which is my hometown.
The third prince became the emperor. He knew me too well and was not worried about my birth. He went against everyone's opinion and made me the general.
When I became a general, my son was eight years old. I don't know why God treated me this way. In the first half of my life, my happiness came from my hometown, and later it came from my son.
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