On the seventeenth day after being reborn in a poor family in ancient times, Lu Taichuan stood in front of three acres of sandy land with no harvest.
My father coughed up blood and lay on the kang, my mother was worried about her gray hair, and my little sister was holding a bowl of water and mushy wild vegetables and crying out that she was hungry. The moth-eaten handwritten copy of "The Analects of Confucius" in the corner, with missing pages and typos, was his only book.
Late at night, there was a soft sound from the woodshed.
An AI printer that shouldn't exist in this era appears out of thin air.
"Hello host, I am Lingyi. What do you need to print?"
A complete set of Four Books and Five Classics. Thirty sets of county examination questions. A collection of examiner comments.
Seventeen days later, a rain fell on the improved sandy land, and the wheat seedlings in his field were greener than the whole village.
From then on, this mud-legged farmer embarked on a road that shocked everyone——
County trial case head. The first case of government examination. The rural examination explains the Yuan Dynasty. Will try and get the yuan. The top scholar in the imperial examination.
Winning three yuan in a row has never happened in a century.
And those who once laughed at him for "having muddy legs and being worthy of studying" are now looking up at his name hanging at the top of the gold list.
But this is not a story only about the imperial examination.
He used a printer to print affordable books, smashing the aristocratic family's monopoly on knowledge; he unlocked pens, plotters, and microscopes, and spread wisdom far beyond this era to the world bit by bit; he taught farmers to improve soil, build water conservancy, and fight against plagues, so that thousands of poor families like him would no longer go hungry.
The wish I made in the woodshed was later engraved on the lintels of three thousand schools in the Dajing Dynasty:
"A noble son can come from a poor family."
"The fragrance of books should be used to benefit the world."
