From Humble Official to Mountain Immortal

Name: From Humble Official to Mountain Immortal
Author: Ladle with Chilled Tofu

寒门仕途到山中真人

by Ladle with Chilled Tofu (水瓢凉拌豆腐)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 248k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical & Ancient
Updated: 7d ago
Source: Fanqie

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Water conservancy engineer Wang Zhiming opens his eyes again and finds himself a newborn farmer’s son in Wangjia Village, Li Country.

His family has only six mu of poor farmland, owes two dan of autumn grain, and his father has been put on the roster for winter river works.

Forget studying for the imperial examinations. It is questionable whether the family can even make it through the winter!

He has no System and no pocket dimension. All he can rely on is the knowledge he gained over thirty-two years in his previous life.

He makes bamboo charcoal, improves liquor, and brews soy sauce to feed his family first. Then he enters a private school, passes the county exams, and takes on the provincial exams, fighting his way from humble beginnings to the imperial court!

A licentiate at fourteen, a provincial graduate at twenty, and a palace graduate ranked third at twenty-two!

But when Wang Zhiming finally takes his place in court, he discovers that Li Country is rotten to the core: land concentration, rampant corruption, an empty treasury, and neglected coastal defenses.

If one good official cannot save the realm, then he will reform the laws!

He measures the fields, develops water conservancy, overhauls taxes, and cuts redundant officials...

He saves countless commoners, but also becomes the person the court’s powerful nobles most want to eliminate.

Then the new laws are overturned, old friends are exiled, his students die tragically, and foreign warships arrive at the gates.

When no one in court dares to fight, the dismissed Wang Zhiming dons his official robes once more and heads for the coast.

From six mu of poor farmland to the imperial court,

in this life, he is determined to ask...

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