From Humble Origins to High Office: A Borderland Tea Farmer Becomes a Powerful Minister

Luo Chengan, a tea farmer from the frontier, wakes one morning to discover he is living inside a ledger that devours people.

The government demands its tea quota early, while death warrants pile up like mountains;

the powerful feast, while the poor take the blame.

With a single tea sample, he pries open the fraudulent books. Though born poor, he steps into the world of officialdom.

While everyone thinks he can't make waves,

he is already standing at the starting point of the official path.

From tea mountains to the imperial court,

see how a poor man climbs, step by step, to the pinnacle of power.