CCWAD – Chapter 40

Chapter 40 Phoenix Nirvana Prologue: "When I declared in the Golden Hall my intention to establish a Grand Academy for Women, the entire court fell silent. An elder minister trembled as he stepped forward: 'Your Majesty, this will shake the foundations of the nation!' I looked into his cloudy eyes and knew this reform had only just begun." --- The drought in the north finally eased under the court's full relief efforts, but the shock this natural disaster brought to the new dynasty had far from…