Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

[Didn't win? Here's a bonus for your good luck!]

"Yinyin, you're so unlucky," Xu Yao said with a regretful expression after looking at the bag next to her. "How come you didn't win the level 15 lucky bag?"

Li Yinyin paused for a moment. Dozens of people were drawing one prize; if she could win, she would be incredibly lucky.

Fortunately, the streamer was just looking for lucky winners to draw the Empress figure. The official level 15 lucky bag contains more items, twenty in total. Each bag includes two badges, one ancient-style character poster, two offline banners, two acrylic cards, two standees, one custom linen item, and one linen printed handbag. The selection is plentiful and diverse, which is quite generous.

This time, Li Yinyin was chosen.

The event continued, and when it came to the emotional part, Li Yinyin didn't pay attention to it. Instead, she focused her attention back on the live streamer on her phone.

"This is a uniform of the Golden Crow Army, unearthed from a general's tomb. The predecessor of the Golden Crow Army was the Women's Guard established by Emperor Taizong. According to records, the Women's Guard's initial function was to protect Emperor Taizong's safety, and there were only two hundred of them in total. When the Ming Dynasty was established, Emperor Taizong was traveling from the old capital to the capital when he was ambushed by the remnants of the former Zhao Kingdom. The two hundred Women's Guards won a great victory over the Zhao Kingdom remnants. This was the first time the Women's Guard appeared in front of the world."

"Subsequently, the Zhao Kingdom's female guards competed with the elite troops under a general and won by a large margin. The founding emperor personally bestowed upon them the name Golden Crow, and from then on, the female guards were officially renamed the Golden Crow Guards. Later, the empress expanded the Golden Crow Guards into the Golden Crow Army. The Golden Crow Army followed the empress in her eastern and western campaigns and made great contributions. When the empress destroyed ten kingdoms, the Golden Crow Army was always by her side."

"This is the first all-female army in Chinese history with clear records and such a large organization. After the Jinwu Army, the idea that women in some areas could only be pampered and kept in their boudoirs gradually changed. In addition, with the suggestion of the Empress, many talented women stepped out of their homes and appeared in the court to display their talents. As a result, during the more than 700 years of the Ming Dynasty, countless female generals and female prime ministers emerged, the most of any dynasty in history."

Wow!

[The First Empress's First Female Army, no problem!]

[I remember the Golden Crow Army later declared themselves kings!]

The sharp-eyed host noticed a comment: "That's right. The Golden Crow Army has always been known for its strict discipline. Apart from normal marriages, no man is allowed to have a hand in the Golden Crow Army. All families who marry into the Golden Crow Army must settle in the Western Regions, the land where the dragon rises. Initially, no one understood the purpose of this order, but after the Western Regions were unified, they became the Empress's fiefdom. Everyone thought it was to better control the Golden Crow Army, but this also affected marriages within the Golden Crow Army to some extent, since not everyone is willing to leave their homeland."

"Until the Empress left a decree before her death, stating that if any of her descendants were licentious and attempted to seduce the Golden Crow Army, the leader of the Golden Crow Army could lead all the female soldiers to the Western Territory to establish their own Women's Kingdom, and they would be pardoned. Once this decree was issued, everyone understood the Empress's intentions; she was leaving a way out for the Golden Crow Army. Because the Western Territory was the place where the emperor rose to power and also the Empress's fiefdom, no future emperor dared to touch it, which made the Golden Crow Army's power in the area grow increasingly large, and those born into the Golden Crow Army became highly sought after."

"Towards the end of the Ming Dynasty, the last emperor happened to be an emperor who had no taboos when it came to women. After a vote in the army, the leader of the Golden Crow Army decisively took some of the royal family members who were disappointed with the last emperor away to the western border. The Ming army along the way ignored the last emperor's order to kill the Golden Crow Army and followed the last wish of Emperor Taizong to let them pass. Even the rebel army did not attack them."

[It's not that I don't want to, it's that I don't dare, hahaha]

[Who doesn't know that although the Golden Crow Army is all women, they are incredibly brave and possess unparalleled combat power? Doge.jpg]

[To be honest, the Golden Crow Army saved the day countless times in times of crisis. The Ming Dynasty, in its seven hundred years, faced several crises of national annihilation! If the last emperor hadn't been so reckless as to force them away, the Ming Dynasty might have continued to exist.]

[To be fair, they were still loyal; they didn't forget to take half of the royal family with them when they left.]

[Have you not seen how many wish-fulfillment novels feature characters who transmigrate to the Ming Dynasty, and the first thing they do is take Emperor Taizong into their harem and have her establish the Golden Crow Army?]

[Pah! Haven't these kinds of male-male fantasy novels gone extinct yet?! Do they think they can even lay a finger on the Empress?!]

[Don't even mention it, if I could travel back in time, I'd be willing to join the Empress's harem. So what if I had to call out "Sister, food! I'm hungry!"? If Consort Chu could do it, so could I!]

[The greatest sycophant of all time, Chu Guijun, in the end, had everything he could want.]

[If you still want to follow the path of Consort Chu, first you need to be beautiful enough, then you need to be multi-talented, capable in both formal and domestic settings, able to take care of children and show concern for their well-being, and with the Empress as your primary focus. Honestly, are you worthy?]

"Forget about whether they're a good match or not," the streamer, who had been watching the chat with great interest, saw that the topic had completely gone off track. Instead of stopping it, he joined in the fun, "If I could travel back to that time, I'd want to be with Emperor Taizong too!"

The chat immediately filled with comments like, "[Stop messing around, streamer! You're a woman, okay?!]"

"So what if she's a woman? For Sister Taizong, I'm willing to grow phantom limbs!!!"

The anchorwoman was clearly a fan of Emperor Taizong, rolling up her sleeves and saying, "Empress Taizong is so beautiful and charming, it's practically a given that both men and women would fall at her feet!"

"Don't you see how many literati, poets, generals, and soldiers wished they could meet Emperor Taizong and become her subordinates? Some people have roughly estimated that there are hundreds of poems about Emperor Taizong that have been passed down, not to mention those that have been lost. A single volume of 'Emperor Taizong's Boastful Writings' could be printed as thick as a medical student's internal medicine textbook, and it might not even be fully printed. Did they really just want to be her subordinates?"

[Hahaha, the Empress's charm never fails; after all, she's a master at selecting the virtuous and capable!]

[Now that you mention it, I'm starting to doubt the veracity of these unofficial historical accounts.]

Unofficial history? Upon seeing this, Li Yinyin typed a line: [What unofficial history, is it true or false?]

This time, the host explained to her: "When the Ming Dynasty was founded, a national advisor was specially appointed, which is very different from many other countries. Regardless of what the national advisors of the later Ming Dynasty were like, the founding national advisor was someone who had a close relationship with the founding emperor and Empress Taizong. This is definitely not a fake."

"According to unofficial historical records, the Empress was a direct disciple of this Grand Preceptor and learned many Taoist arts from him. Her purpose in carving the jade map was not only for mapmaking, but also to suppress the nation's fortune and ensure its continued prosperity. Of course, some people believe this story while others do not, but I tend to believe that it is true."

"After all, isn't it more convenient to look at a map, draw it on paper, or use a sand table? The Empress used these things when she was on military campaigns, and there are clear records of them in the Imperial Daily Records. Moreover... although it is now considered superstition, there are several records in historical books of water gushing or cracking in jade maps, which correspond to floods and earthquakes."

"Even in modern times, a major earthquake was predicted by a jade map in the collection of the National Central Museum. The cracks appeared out of nowhere, right under the noses of all the visitors and the cameras. After all, it was covered in glass, so no one would touch it. What else could it be but a warning?"

[What kind of warning is this? The expert said it's because of a problem with the storage environment. (doge emoji x3)]

[Yeah, one minute they say it's science, the next they've moved it away and put it under tight surveillance. (doge emoji)]