Fuai Jingou

林慧敏

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**Fuai Jingou** (Luangese: 林慧敏, *Fuāi Jí-ngòu*) is a researcher, academic, and the first and current Consul Secretary of the Luangese Republic.

## Early Life

Born in the village of Fuatsiu, under the Yua Dynasty, Jingou was the second oldest of her four siblings. She grew up in poverty, as her parents were, like most people at the time, farmers. She grew up doing light domestic labor and working in the rice fields, beginning around age four. From four to twelve, she continued down the path of a peasant farmer. She often went hungry as a child, as high taxes meant that her family could only keep a fraction of their total agricultural produce.

Just before turning twelve, the early stages of the Saffron Revolution had reached Fuatsiu, and the local lord Tsing Un'ua was executed by a mob of the village peasants. The Fuai family began to flourish and eat well for the first time in Jingou's life.

## Military Career

After the overthrowal of Tsing Un'ua, the village of Fuatsiu joined up in a coalition of other "free villages" to ensure the continuation of their free status. Yeng Siu, a political commissar from the army of Ho Kianpuai, came to Fuatsiu to recruit soldiers; Jingou and her older brother Jiruan signed up to join the army. Jingou, only twelve at the time, lied about her age, as fourteen was the age required to join the army. Nonetheless, she was accepted, and began crossbow training.

She served only a few weeks in the military, and conducted a scouting operation in which Yua-loyalist spies were captured and interrogated. The spies indicated to the army of an upcoming ambush, and the revolutionary army took not. It is because of this small capture that Ho Kianpuai's army moved to a defensible position atop Mount Zhiuhiang, performed a counter-ambush, and captured enemy general Yua Giao.

However, in the battle of Mount Zhiuhiang, Jingou's brother Jiruan was wounded. He passed away of his injuries later that night, leaving JIruan devastated despite the stunning victory she helped achieve. When general Ho Kianpuai and Yeng Siu visited the two to reward Jingou with a medal of honor, Jingou refused, confessed that she was not of age to be in the army, and demanded to go home. General Ho accepted and formally discharged her, while still allowing her to collect a soldier's pension as well as that of her late brother's.

## Education

It was thanks to the generosity of General Ho Kianpuai that Jingou was able to get away with having lied to the army and still receive payment for her service. The money she earned was immediately put into literacy classes, as the Fuai family hired Ser Fuarei, a tutor who helped Jingou learn to read at the age of 12. Ser helped Jingou with reading, and both were convinced that Jingou's future career would be in medicine. Many of the books she read were thusly medical texts, and Jingou proved to be a fast learner.

Whilst reading, Jingou became tired of studying medicine on her own, and began pursuit of related academia. She eventually struggled with the minutiae of human health practices and preparation of medicines, and instead became much more interested in the plants, animals, and minerals that the medicines often came from. By age 15, she decided that her path would not be medicine but rather research in the natural sciences. As the revolution concluded around the same time she finished her studies, she slowly began involved in politics.

## Political Career

Though still nominally interested in science, she quickly rose to fame and power, winning a vote to become the first Consul Secretary of Luang. Despite having little funding, she was favored in many intellectual circles, and her biography spread among the people. Her background as both a peasant and a scientist ensured her favor in the eyes of both the intelligentsia and the peasantry, and thus ensured her victory in the nation's first ever election with 66.7% of the vote.

She has supported most economic laws passed by fellow Consul Len Rin and the loyalist government in the Wheat Rebellion, and in 203 proposed the National Infrastructure Law. She has also founded the Luang National Science Guild, which functions as her primary body of political support and outlet of scientific curiosity.