During the Wanli era, wind and rain were about to come to the southwest borderlands. In the Qin family of Zhongzhou, there was a daughter named Liangyu who at thirteen years old did not like boudoir cosmetics, preferring to practice swordplay and study military strategy, often turning her embroidered desk into a military book. She said to her family, "Ordinary marriages cannot protect our fellow villagers; only by training our skills can we defend the land and pacify the people." Seeing her extraordinary ambitions, her father Qin Kui taught her military books and war strategies at night, arranging military formations with pebbles, and pointing at the two words Bozhou on the map while admonishing, "Knowing place names is far from enough; you must know the mountains, rivers, and terrain, and even more so the allegiance of the people's hearts." At that time, the Bozhou chieftain Yang Yinglong let his soldiers run amok, plundering grain and harassing the common people, making it difficult for local officials to restrain them. From her youth, Qin Liangyu led her fellow villagers to protect the village and guard the grain.