The Ming Dynasty’s Ultimate Survival Guide

Yang Zhan transmigrates to the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty, becoming a low-ranking official in the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, responsible for recording celestial changes and predicting fortune and misfortune.

It is the end of the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing. There has been no snow all winter, and a locust plague is sure to follow next year. Jiajing, who hates being bothered, summons Zhou Yunyi to the palace and orders him to draft an excuse, telling the four corners of the realm that the lack of snow has nothing to do with the emperor.

Instead, Zhou Yunyi boldly remonstrates, declaring that Heaven has sent down punishment because the emperor is immoral. Jiajing flies into a rage and orders Feng Bao to beat him to death with a staff outside Meridian Gate.

Afterward, Chen Hong, the eunuch in charge of the Directorate of Ceremonial's writing brush, arrives at the Imperial Astronomical Bureau with orders to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Thus begins Yang Zhan's extraordinary transmigration and his path to governing the country.

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