Dreaming Back to the Northern Song: Starting by Rejecting Wang Anshi’s Reforms

After transmigrating to the first year of the Jiayou era of the Great Song, he finds his family destitute from the start, with his father coughing blood and on the brink of death.

The clan head, accompanied by yamen runners, kicks open their ramshackle door and tosses down a forged red-stamped “labor summons,” intent on forcibly seizing the family’s property and driving all three members of the Gu family down a path from which no one returns alive!