In this world, the imperial examination is a cage and poor families are a gu.
Shen Yan traveled through time and became a genius from a poor family. He was a twelve-year-old boy and a fifteen-year-old scholar. He thought that studying hard could change his life. Until the results of the provincial examination were released, his beautiful articles were clearly signed with the name of a son of aristocratic family; his best friend was killed with a cane in court for questioning injustice; he had no way to surrender, but was humiliated: "A poor family is only worthy of being a pig raised in a pen."
He saw with his own eyes that in order to prevent the imperial court from clearing their fields, aristocratic families dug up embankments with a smile, allowing 40,000 people to be silently annihilated. He heard with his own ears that at the night banquet of a high-ranking family, drunken people said, "Wen slaves raise gu", and the hard work of talented people from poor families was regarded as a stepping stone for their own children to advance, and was drained and discarded.
It turns out that under the Huanghuang civil rule, there was a feast of "stealing luck" that lasted for thousands of years. Knowledge is monopolized, the path to advancement is controlled, and imperial power struggles to breathe in the giant web woven by aristocratic families. Poor people are never "people", they are just "means of production" that are kept in captivity and harvested.
Desperate, Shen Yan crashes into the mansion of Zhao Yuanji, the frail and ostracized prince of Pingjun, who was shunned by the royal family. One is a genius abandoned by the rules, and the other is an abandoned son whose life is short.
"Since this road is blocked, why not cut down the tree and establish new rules?"
From accumulating copper coins by "Cheng Ji" Xiangyaizi, to setting up a free school to sow fire; from setting up a network of salesmen to spy on the market, to starting a tabloid to compete for the right to speak. Shen Yan used modern thinking as his blade and struggled to weave a web of his own under the shadow of the behemoth of the family.
However, when the ants began to eat the dam, the hunter opened his eyes. Suppression, framing, and assassinations followed one after another. Chaotang
