About Reincarnation and Traveling to Ancient Times

In the eighteenth year of Qianlong's reign, the afterglow of the prosperous age had not yet faded, but the death knell of the empire was already ringing in the dark. Lin Yuan, a top student in the History Department of Peking University, passed through Haicheng, Fujian Province and became Lin Haitang of the Lin family. He knew that this so-called prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong was just a gorgeous robe covered with lice. He knew that in thirty years, this huge empire would fall from its peak and be beyond redemption. In order to survive and to change that humiliating history, he had to put on the mask of a child prodigy and work hard every step of the way. He shocked both the government and the public by making an aside in the county examination. He set a trap for Ji Xiaolan on the way to Beijing and took advantage of the situation to gain power. He retreated in order to advance in the Yangxin Hall, handing the hilt of the knife to the emperor in exchange for a ticket to enter the game. In this life, he does not believe in fate or heaven, he only believes in the pen in his hand and the strategy in his heart. See how a nine-year-old child grows into a towering tree in the wind and frost of this forty-nine city, propping up a new sky for this crumbling empire. (Ps, the chapter name is completely inconsistent with the actual content, it's just the author's madness)