The Imperial Exams: Rising to the Clouds

A disastrous start from the start? No, this is where the comeback begins!

Lin Chengfeng, a top student at Qingbei University, was twenty-four when he transmigrated into a six-year-old farm boy in the Jiangnan countryside. His family had nothing, he was starving, and he nearly died.

Other people transmigrated as princes or ministers, or at worst as rich young masters. Lin Chengfeng could only ask the heavens: Did someone give me the wrong script?!

Since he was here, he might as well hit the books.

With a photographic memory and a head full of modern knowledge, Lin Chengfeng set out to turn his life around.

Fishing, salted eggs, jianbing, and oden: he made small businesses thrive. Making sugar, refining salt, and producing cement: his breakthrough techniques sparked an industrial revolution.

While running a business to earn his first fortune, the young boy also threw himself into studying the classics. From the county exams all the way to the palace examination, he triumphed at every turn, achieving an unprecedented sweep of all six top honors and making a name for himself throughout the land!

At fourteen, Lin Chengfeng was already Vice Minister of Works and tutor to the Crown Prince. When the young prince fretted, "Teacher, the barbarians are invading our borders, but the treasury is empty and our weapons are outdated. How can we fight this war?"

Lin Chengfeng smiled calmly. "No money? Issue government bonds. No weapons? It's time to get the gunpowder workshops running."

When the Great Qian army swept across the battlefield with firearms in hand, the once-arrogant barbarians could only tremble in fear.

And all this was only the beginning of his grand ambitions...