I Asked You to Take the Imperial Exams, So Why Are You Setting KPIs?

While everyone else was still studying by hanging their hair from the rafters and pricking their thighs with an awl, Gu Yan had already turned the Four Books and Five Classics into his own knowledge system with mind maps! While his powerful rivals were still throwing money around, Gu Yan had already made the entire village his staunchest support through the “cooperative model”! Everyone thought he was a bookworm who only knew how to cram. Only when he appeared in the official robes of the top third-place graduate and brought down a century-old clan with a single memorial did they realize in terror that this man, who had clawed his way out of the mud, had long since used knowledge to build an invisible empire of his own!