Name: A Late-Born Son of a Farmer Takes the Imperial Exam and Leaves the Emperor Stunned
Author: Wind Tugs at the Clouds

Synopsis

Also known as The Late-Born Son of a Farming Family Takes the Civil Service Exams, and Grows So Powerful Even the Emperor Is Stunned;

I Entered Government Through the Civil Service Exams and Became a Powerful Minister of Great Qian;

Song Yuan, a rising star in the legal world, dies in a car accident and transmigrates into a farming family in Great Qian, becoming the late-born son whom the whole village mocks.

With disasters striking one after another and his family mired in poverty, his life from the start is nothing short of hell mode.

He hates hardship, hard work, and bugs, and faints as soon as he gets too much sun. But he knows at a glance that the civil service exams are his only way out!

While others spend ten years studying in poverty, he relies on his modern intellect and wealth of knowledge to breeze through every challenge.

He is hailed as a prodigy from his first day at school, takes first place in every exam, from the provincial to the palace examinations, and fights his way from licentiate to top scholar.

Lin Erniang smiles. “People laugh that an old clam gave birth to a pearl, but how could they know I gave birth to a star of literary brilliance!”

At court, even the emperor is stunned by him:

“Minister Song, how should we deal with the floods in the south?”

“The treasury is empty and trouble is mounting along the borders. Do you have a solution?”

Song Yuan calmly takes action: he develops white sugar, boosts trade, strengthens the military, and secures the borders.

He can stabilize the country with his words and repel enemies with force.

The peace and prosperity of Great Qian are all thanks to this top scholar who rose from a farming family!

Stats

567Chapters

12.1kReads · 30 days

461.2kReads · all time

1.1kShelf adds, last 14 days

8.1Score

More by this author

Military Marriage in the 1980s: The Strong Girl Turns the Whole Family Upside Down and Splits the Household

A Disabled Bride in Her Place, Her Tough-Guy Husband Loves Her to the Bone

A Surge of Secret Desire

Mr. Shen’s Unrestrained Tenderness

Tracing Summer's Heart: A Decade of Secret Love

Back to the 1980s, the Pretty Wife Reforms Her Good-for-Nothing Husband

You Forced Me to Cut Ties: I Built a Mansion and Got Rich, So Why Are You Crying?

Afraid of Bug Bites, I Transmigrate to Take the Imperial Exams

In booklists 15

Who Deserves to Be Called an Authority in Imperial Examination Stories?

Looking for books like You Were Supposed to Be the Young Master's Page, but You Passed the Imperial Exam for Him (The Poor Scholar Who Placed First). Any gender is fine, as long as it's satisfying and makes sense!

126Books3.1MViews2dUpdated

High-Quality Imperial Examination Novels

Looking for books similar to "From Passing the Imperial Exams with Top Scores to Running the Government". Wonderful fellow readers, can you recommend some high-quality imperial-exam novels? Something like "A Noble Son from a Poor Family" or "Running the Government" would be great.

347Books29.6MViews2dUpdated

Ancient-Era Imperial Exam Success Stories!!! Bring It On

Imperial exams for poor scholars + making money + everyday family life

103Books3.3MViews4dUpdated

Looking for Stories Where the Male Lead Is the Only Boy in the Family or a Late-Born Son, Spoiled by His Doting Grandmother

No courtyard-house stories, no courtyard-house stories!!!

333Books35.2MViews4dUpdated

Recommend Good Imperial Exam Fics With a Morally Upright Male Lead, Whether He Comes From a Poor or Aristocratic Family

I don't want one where they get married right at the beginning. I want it to start when they're children.

168Books2MViews5dUpdated

Any Good Imperial Exam Novels? The More, the Better

For imperial examination novels, don’t make the golden finger too powerful.

262Books17.2MViews5dUpdated

Imperial Examination Novels with Sound Historical Knowledge, No Stupid Characters, and Logical Plots

142Books899kViews6dUpdated

High-Quality Ancient-Era Imperial Examination Novels Worth Rereading Again and Again

Looking for books like "Ding! A Legacy for the Ages: The Young Lady Starts Studying (Rising to the Clouds, Imperial Exams)". Historical setting, imperial exams, high quality.

381Books3MViews7dUpdated

Imperial Exams, Rural Life, Children, Smart Characters, No Dumbing Down, and Real History

Ideally, something set in the Ming dynasty. That one about Zhu Qiniu was pretty good.

312Books35.9MViews9dUpdated

A Poor Scholar Preparing for the Civil Service Exams, Who Also Knows Martial Arts

115Books7.9MViews9dUpdated

Imperial Exam Stories That Never Get Old

Looking for books similar to My Clan Helps Me Rise to the Clouds, So I Gift Them Purple Robes. I prefer detailed descriptions.

80Books295.8kViews10dUpdated

After Transmigrating, He Finds a Jade Pendant in a Cave, and Inside It Is a Tiny World

Looking for a book.

749Books67MViews15dUpdated

Poor Farmer, Striving Through the Imperial Examinations: Farming and Studying to Rule the World

Looking for books like "Poor but Determined: A Farmer's Child Takes the Imperial Exams". Chapter 3: Want to Study? Early this morning, everyone in the family except the eldest branch and Zhang Shi, young and old, male and female, went out to work in the fields. They had to get started before the sun came up.

77Books1.4MViews19dUpdated