Chen Yuan, a graduate student in history, woke up to find himself a poor licentiate in the Jiajing era, having fainted from hunger in the examination hall.
His family had nothing, his widowed mother was gravely ill, and creditors were banging on the door. His classmates humiliated him, and the examiners made things difficult for him.
But his mind held an entire library of modern scholarship.
Third from the bottom in the county exam? He took first place in the retest. The sons of wealthy families mocked him for being poor and shabby? He turned around and trampled them underfoot.
It took him just thirty years to rise from an impoverished scholar to a man whose power eclipsed all others.
Yan Song, Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng... the great men of the court were all waiting to see his next move.
Watch a transmigrator use knowledge to crush his way through the Ming bureaucracy!
Yes, but the examination for scholar can only be conducted by the government. The county examination is for children, the province is for examination, and the capital examination is for Jinshi.
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