“A modern academic prodigy is born into a dirt-poor farming family. Could a thatched hut really hide formulas capable of outclassing all six ministries?”
As Li Ming, a barefoot farm boy, uses a branch to work through calculus on a sand table, the entire imperial examination system of the Great Liang dynasty trembles.
A solution to a cubic equation appears on the county examination. His policy essay for the prefectural exam exposes the festering wound of land concentration. At the palace exam, he uses game theory to unravel the border crisis on the spot. When the vermilion brush hovers over the list of top scholars, the high officials finally realize that this impoverished prodigy has already used mathematics and science to reshape the path to advancement in government.
From statistical models in disaster-relief granaries to logical traps in debates at court, watch him use a single examination paper to overturn the aristocratic clans’ monopoly and wield his pen like a sword to expose three hundred years of corruption in the examination system.
While scions of the great families are still memorizing the Four Books and Collected Commentaries, the science-minded top scholar is already balancing the six ministries’ finances on his abacus.
(A knowledge tyrant transmigrates to an ancient examination hall, solving problems with formulas, governing with data, and crushing the rankings with logic. This is an epic rise from humble beginnings, with face-slapping moments on every page!)
