One Man, Three Legendary Talents: Poet Immortal, Poet Sage, and Father of Industry

[Soul transmigration + no System + ancient imperial examinations + reborn]

In his previous life, he was a PhD in engineering from a top university. He had arranged to climb Mount Tai when he encountered a rare celestial phenomenon that appears only once in a thousand years: Mars shining ominously. Then he vanished without a trace.

In this life, carrying five thousand years of future knowledge, he was reborn as Lu Yang, an eight-year-old boy in Taiping Village on the northern frontier of the Great Yin dynasty.

His family had three “characters”: a grandfather past fifty who had repeatedly failed the imperial examinations, and an uncle and father, aged thirty-seven and thirty-two, who were still only licentiates.

To find a way forward, he “talked” three older brothers into letting him help write their books. He made them famous across the land, while earning his own first fortune.

At twelve, he took the exam in place of a young master who had no desire to sit for it, and passed with flying colors. His “Bring in the Wine” shook the literary world; “River Town” was hailed as the greatest elegy for the dead of all time; “Ode to the Cold Kiln” inspired people across the ages and into the future… His poetry established a new standard for poetic style.

At sixteen and a half, he wrote "Dream of the Red Chamber", which became a household name. At seventeen, he placed first in the highest imperial examination and entered the palace.

By thirty, he held high office. He promoted industry, developed firearms, established schools for commoners, and built waterworks. He formed an armored combined-arms brigade and the East Sea Fleet, led a northern campaign as far as Siberia, and sailed south to open new sea routes, laying the foundations for a golden age.

He possessed six-tenths of the world’s talent. In retirement, he tended to the people’s livelihoods; in office, he safeguarded the nation. He filled the treasury and doubled the population, becoming a model ruler for the vassal states. When he spoke, the great clans fell silent; when he put pen to paper, the vassal kings offered up their estates…

The story begins with his transmigration