After transmigrating into a scholar’s body in Hanting, he finds his father dead, barely laid to rest, while cruel servants prey on the family and demand payment at the funeral hall. His mother is so enraged that her blood and qi surge, leaving her on the brink of death.
Li Yunqian, a master’s graduate in Chinese Language and Literature from a top-tier university in his previous life, awakens the [Omniscient Library] System.
“Trying to seize the family fortune? First let’s see whether the Great Ye laws in my hands will allow it!”
He saves his mother with medicine in one hand and takes on his enemies with the law in the other. From selling “scraps,” namely pig offal, to earn his first fortune, to inventing cement and glass and becoming the richest man in the world; from taking first place in the county exams to earning the top score in the palace exam, he surges ahead, achieving the unprecedented feat of “passing six exams in a row” and bringing the entire court to its knees.
Other people study to become officials. He becomes an official to change the world!
At court, he upends the gentry’s foundations with the “taxation by acreage” reform, wielding absolute power. On the battlefield, he brings out Western-style cannons and firing-line tactics, blasting the barbarian cavalry to pieces. On the open seas, his invincible fleet sweeps the Seven Seas, planting the Great Ye dragon banner around the globe.
The Emperor: “My dear subject, the treasury is full again. I’d like to build a new garden...”
Li Yunqian: “Your Majesty, there are still tens of thousands of acres of unclaimed land in the Americas. Why not build it there?”
