We always laugh at the ancients in history books who were trapped in the feudal class, ignorant and struggling.
But when Lin Yan was hit by an invisible barrier in modern times, he discovered that there was no difference between us and the ancients thousands of years ago.
The information gap seems to have been broken, but the real inner circle has long risen to a height that is invisible to ordinary people; class barriers seem to have disappeared, but the invisible threshold is more powerless than the ancient household registration system.
In an accident, he took the essence of modern basic education and the wisdom of five thousand years of Chinese history and transformed into a 6-year-old peasant boy in the Jing Dynasty.
Here, class is an iron law written in the law. The son of a farmer will always be a farmer, and the son of a scholar will always be a scholar. Having enough food is a luxury, and surviving is a problem.
Lin Yan has no ambition to become a prince or prime minister. He just wants to survive, use his knowledge to plant a good field, protect his mother, live a stable life, and experience the true life of the ancients.
But this world never gives people at the bottom a chance to live in peace.
The evil gentry wants to seize his fields, the merchants want to cut off his road, the nobles want to block his ascending path, and the court wants to crush him like a chess piece.
He gave in again and again, was forced into desperate situations again and again, and finally understood:
If you want to live a stable life, you must first have the ability not to be bullied; if you want to break the shackles of class, you must first stand at a level where you can make rules.
From the mountains and fields, to the prefecture and county government offices, from the imperial examination room to the Jinluan Hall.
He was forced to move forward all the way, from a peasant boy who didn't have enough to eat, to a powerful minister who controlled the country and stabilized the country.
He finally stood at the pinnacle of power, but he never forgot that he originally wanted to