A History Master's Guide: From the Start, I Forge a Dragon-Slaying Technique

Xie Chenzhou transmigrates into the body of an impoverished scholar who froze to death in a ruined temple. The moment he opens his eyes, he is already in a dead end.

The national treasury is empty, the border is under threat, and the old foxes at court are shouting at one another over factional strife.

He quietly spreads out paper and ink.

With a master's degree in history in his previous life, he knows better than anyone how to slay dragons.

And so...

He presents a strategy to deal with border threats, and the examiners slap the table: “This young man is worth a hundred thousand soldiers!”

He proposes a plan to control the rivers, and the entire court is stunned: “An insight unseen in a thousand years!”

Reforming the salt tax, auditing military provisions, destroying a kingdom in a thousand-mile campaign... Every move he makes strikes at the foundations of this empire.

The emperor uses him, but guards against him. The grand secretary hates him, but fears him more. The upright officials condemn him, yet wish they could be him.

In this “six-sided killing game” involving the emperor, powerful ministers, eunuchs, upright officials, aristocratic families, and the imperial clan, he advances like a player moving pieces on a board, laying only open, unanswerable traps:

“I audit the accounts. If you stop me, you have something to hide. I don't kill people. I break their spirits.”

Only when the realm is in turmoil does he quietly say to the figure on the dragon throne:

“Your Majesty, I never wanted the merit of helping you seize the throne.”

“What I want to govern is this vast land, and a bowl of hot noodles... with someone waiting for me.”

[Masterful Political Intrigue] + [The Most Hardcore Golden Finger in History] + [From the Start, in a Desperate Predicament]

See how a master's graduate in history uses the art of “slaying dragons” to carve out a bloody path through a six-sided killing game.