Huang Mo, 23, is a senior history major. After grinding through the final level of the game "Eternal Famous Ministers", he transmigrates.
He becomes a poor scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty who can't even afford rent.
The good news is that the game System he knows so well has come along with him. The imperial examinations, official evaluations, merit points, and faction influence are all displayed for him.
The bad news is that the game is set to hell difficulty from the start: you have to take the imperial examinations one level at a time, and even after passing, you have to queue for an actual post. Want to cut in line? Start saving merit points!
Huang Mo decides that since he's already here, he might as well conquer the Northern Song bureaucracy.
So:
· While others struggle through the Four Books and Five Classics in despair, he unlocks the [Lifelong Student] trait and gains a photographic memory.
· While others nervously write policy essays, he uses modern public administration to crush the competition.
· Someone gives him a hard time at a poetry gathering? He smiles faintly and recites Lu You, Xin Qiji, and Su Dongpo. (Old Su is still young, so he's not going to come after him for royalties.)
· When Western Xia invades, he takes up the post of military commissioner despite being a civil official, then recites a poem, “Battle Breaker,” before the three armies, sending morale through the roof.
From county magistrate to prefect, from transport commissioner to military commissioner, and finally to the grand council: step by step, he turns “Northern Song Online” into his own power fantasy.
But he never expected that the hardest level in the game wouldn't be the imperial examinations or the frontier, but the factional infighting at court.
Good looking hahahaha