Is Everything Else Inferior to the Written Word?

Armed with modern knowledge, he overwhelms his opponents, but is forced into the most primitive game of imperial examinations. When the ideal of “teaching and nurturing talent” collides with a world where “study leads to officialdom,” and the vision of “teaching without discrimination” offends the rule that “the skills of literature and war are meant to be sold to the emperor,” Qi Beichuan’s defiant path becomes the loudest slap in the face this era has ever received.