Great Ming: Setting Up an Imperial Exam Prep School Makes Old Zhu Blow His Top

Qin Shuo, a star teacher at a civil service exam prep school, transmigrates to the early Hongwu era and opens a tutoring academy for the imperial examinations. Over the next decade, more than two hundred of his students pass the jinshi examinations.

He thought he could quietly make a fortune and gradually build up the academy's strength. But when Fang Xiaoru unexpectedly tops the exams, the academy's success is exposed.

Already resentful of southern students, the northern scholars turn all their anger on the exam prep academy. To quell public outrage, Zhu Yuanzhang threatens to shut it down. Great Ming will absolutely not tolerate an academy this damn good!

Zhu Yuanzhang: "I may not know how to educate children, but I do know that studying isn't warfare. Running laps can't replace reading!"

Zhu Biao: "This isn't a life fit for a human being! We get up at one in the morning, study for an hour, and before dawn we have to hurry off to court!"

Zhu Di: "It's the middle of the night. Even the singers on the Qinhuai River are asleep, but I'm still studying!"

Qin Shuo: "What the hell do you know? The third watch brings the lamplight, the fifth watch the rooster's crow: that's the time to study like your life depends on it. If studying doesn't kill you, study until it does!"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.