My Years Teaching in the Late Ming

Chen Zhi, a university student doing rural teaching, accidentally transmigrated into the body of a down-and-out scholar in the late Ming after trying to save a child from a flash flood. He became the village’s only private school teacher. The scholar had hated teaching and cared only about passing the imperial examinations, but from then on his personality changed completely, and he fell in love with educating the young. He had awakened the Rural Teaching System: educating one child earned five points, while educating one bandit earned fifty. Points could be exchanged for rice, seeds, fertilizer, and books. While natural disasters left refugees everywhere and desperate parents resorted to selling their children for food, the villagers of Niu Family Village could still eat their fill. But this aroused the greed of the bandits and raiders nearby. Fortunately, Chen Zhi could also exchange points for firearms. By organizing neighboring villages into mutual-defense pacts, he set out to build a secluded haven in the late Ming. However, the System had given him a greater mission. The Ming dynasty was sick, and he also had to educate its nobles and gentry, as well as the rebels. The Tartars were vicious. Could Mr. Chen try to educate them, too? The red-haired foreigners were greedy. Mr. Chen shook his head when he saw them. These people could only be taught with guns.