The Yan Dynasty was based on the nine-rank family system. The world's spiritual veins, official power, and resources for cultivating immortals are all monopolized by clans. Grade is destiny, family status is heaven.
The Shen family is an eighth-grade common people. The spiritual field is exhausted, the clan leader is seriously ill, and a ban on entering the court for three generations hangs above his head. What's even more fatal is that the next performance evaluation is just around the corner. If you lose a rank, you will be a common people; if you lose a land, you will be exterminated.
The time traveler Shen Yunce has become the only variable in this family.
He has no golden fingers and no heaven-defying bloodline. His knowledge of history and economics in his previous life is his only reliance. On this dying dry mountain, he will use a cognitive framework that transcends the times to tear a rift in a world controlled by powerful families.
And behind him, stood the entire Shen family. The eldest sister, Shen Yunlan, a genius sword cultivator, reached the peak of Qi refining at the age of nineteen, but was trapped in a dry mountain due to poverty; the third brother, Shen Yunzhao, was a business prodigy who still did not know where his talent lay; the fifth sister, Shen Qingmo, was a taciturn alchemy genius who discovered the inheritance of alchemy that had been sealed for hundreds of years in her grandmother's relics...
This is an epic family portrait.
From the dry mountains on the border to the court in the capital, from the business wars in the forecourt to the war on the border, Shen Yunce used nine strategies to overcome the nine situations - changing the fields and planting medicine, trading each other to break the feudal feud, entering the imperial examination, taking advantage of marriage, establishing military achievements, and reforming the system - every step used intellectual games to push the family upstream.
But the end of intrigue is not intrigue. It is the insight into the human heart, the grasp of the laws, and the judgment of the current situation. There is an upper limit to the power of individuals, and only then can the advantages of the system last for hundreds of years. Real strength is not to defeat all enemies, but to defeat those who once wanted to defeat you.
