After Han Chuang studied hard for twelve years, an imperial examination paper was burned in public by the clan. Chen Yanbai tore the test paper into pieces, splattering the Gongyuan with blood. When he opened his eyes again, he turned out to be a poor man with the same name in the late Jiajing period, holding in his hand the code of the national destiny three hundred years later. He no longer seeks fame, but wants to rewrite the crumbling Ming Dynasty - using the market as a chess piece, literature as a blade, Shen Zhaoyi as an eye, Zhao Sangeng as the most popular person, Liu Qingluan as a bridge, and secretly fight against Yan Shifan's Iron Curtain for three years. When the "Ten Policies on Salt Policy" shocked the government and the public, and when the manuscript of "Mr. Ghost Pen" spread throughout ten provinces, this revolution without gunpowder has just begun.
