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Empress Jiang Zhao had just crushed the rebels and seized the throne when 200,000 Northern Di cavalrymen pressed the border. The old ministers either begged for peace or shouted "Fight them!"—but none had a plan. Then, Gu Zhaozhi, the "idle slacker from the Ministry of Revenue" mocked by the court, stepped forward with a folding fan: "Your Majesty, don't panic. I have a few (million) tricks up my sleeve." To everyone's surprise, this man, who spent his days calculating pastry shop profits, lured the Northern Di into a swamp trap with cartloads of candied dates and took down the traitor in the harem. Even more shocking? The secret letter in his fan was a "protection plan" he'd been writing for the Empress for three years! When Jiang Zhao held the letter and asked, "You planned this all along?" Gu Zhaozhi smiled and handed her a peeled orange: "My tricks were always only for You, Your Majesty."
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