In the eleventh year of Hongzhi, Baishui County, Hejian Prefecture.
When Yang Mingyuan woke up, he found himself lying in a leaky shabby room, covered with a thin patched quilt, and there was only half a bowl of gruel on the stove with a human figure visible.
In his previous life, he was a PhD student in the Chinese Department of Peking University, specializing in the history of the Ming Dynasty. He held the manuscript of every major event in the "Records of the Ming Dynasty". But now, he is just a poor boy who can't even pay for the exam. All the scholars in the county sneered behind their backs: "You want to jump over the dragon gate too, do you want to do that?"
But no one knew that in this "mud-legged man"'s mind, he held the rise and fall of the dynasty for the entire two hundred years after the Hongzhi Dynasty.
