Ming Dynasty Started with Abacus

During the Chenghua Dynasty, in the saline-alkali land of central Hebei Province, the Xu family struggled to survive on twenty-five acres of thin farmland. Xu Ping'an, who is naturally good at calculating, has seen through the exploitation of taxes and labor and official corruption. He entered the county government office and wanted to seek justice through the accounts. When the abacus failed to account for the injustice in the world, he put down his fields and took up his writing to take the exam. An acre of thin farmland is tied to a human life, and a volume of poems determines the fate of a lifetime. From a cowherd boy in a farmer's house to a scholar in the imperial examination, a piece of commoner's clothes stirs up the storm of success. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.