The Poor Aren’t Meant to Become Top Scholars? I’ll Defy You, So Why Are You Crying?

Lu Feng transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes the top-ranked scholar in the highest tier of the Great Qian Empire's imperial examinations. He thought he would become a general or minister and help the emperor accomplish great things, but instead, aristocratic clans framed him and threw him into the imperial prison, claiming that a man from a humble family had no right to become the top scholar. In prison, he awakens the Lord System, but its activation condition is that Lu Feng must leave the capital alive. Just as Lu Feng is at his wits' end, five veteran ministers from the previous dynasty vouch for him. Under pressure, the empress changes his sentence to exile. As soon as Lu Feng arrives at the place of exile, the five veteran ministers who vouched for him are murdered. Lu Feng knows that all of this is the fault of the aristocratic clans and the empress's incompetence. If people from humble families aren't fit to become top scholars, then I'll build a country where they are!