An accident caused Gu Yanchuan, a top student in modern times, to wake up in the county jail of Dayao Dynasty.
At this time, he was just a temporary clerk with no rank in the county government, but he was involved in the official food shortage case and became the outcast who took the blame for others. Three days later, the charges were proven and the family was destroyed.
In order to survive, he looked for flaws in a grain book, two dendrobium trees and paintings of dead people, and uncovered the chain of interests behind the official warehouse. But clearing the name is just the beginning. Clan seizures of land, powerful forces suppressing food, river engineering scandals, and examination fraud are all invisible nets that still weigh on the heads of poor families.
Since Bai Shen had no right to overturn the verdict, he took part in the imperial examination;
Since the old laws could not protect the people, he remade the rules;
Since the court was no longer able to save the world, he personally supported a new dynasty.
From a writer on death row to a poor scholar in the county examination, from a local official to a powerful minister in the court, Gu Yanchuan used the account books as his sword and the people's hearts as his chess to move forward step by step between aristocratic families, bureaucracy and imperial power.
Many years later, when he stood at the top of power, he discovered that the real difficulty was never to win the world, but to make those in power bound by the rules.
He started from a humble family, took the imperial examination and became an official, started a business, and fought for power.
In this life, he will be in charge of not only an official seal, but also the cauldron of the world.
A very well written novel