The Fierce Bastard Son

[Transmigration + Political Scheming + Engineer + Decisive and Ruthless + Overwhelming Intelligence] Ling Tian, a top student from one of China's elite universities, transmigrates to Great Yan and starts in hell mode! The illegitimate son of the Minister of War, abandoned outside the family home, he's barely been brought back to the capital when the legitimate eldest son frames him for stealing a top-secret military map! Treason? Execution of his entire clan? Facing his furious father, poisonous stepmother, and brothers watching for entertainment, Ling Tian just smiles. “You say this is a top-secret map? Sorry, based on the light refraction and ink oxidation, this is obviously a fake drawn yesterday!” “You want to punish me under family law? I'm afraid the Great Yan Code says that anyone who falsely accuses an elder brother of treason is to be executed immediately!” A few words leave his eldest brother on his knees begging for mercy and force his father, the Minister, to bow his head and apologize! From then on, the Minister's residence has a “living King of Hell” no one dares provoke. The world laughs at his humble origins and calls him a country bumpkin? He casually refines pure salt, grows richer than a kingdom, and makes Jiangnan's great merchants bow to him! He improves iron smelting and gunpowder, builds the Divine Machine Battalion, and makes the northern barbarians tremble at his name! He casually composes poetry, producing timeless masterpieces that make the capital's talented women swear they'll marry no one but him! Ling Zhenxiong (Father): “I brought him back to earn a reputation for benevolence. Who knew he'd strip me of all authority?!” The Emperor: “Minister Ling, I'll give you half my realm. Please, stop inventing things!” Ling Tian: “I wanted to get along with you as an ordinary person, but you forced me to flip the table. So be it. In Great Yan, what I say goes!”