Late Ming: A Poor Scholar's Road to Becoming a Powerful Minister

In his previous life, he was a renowned PhD in Ming and Qing history. When he opened his eyes, he had become a six-year-old boy in a poor tenant-farming family in Jiangnan during the Ming dynasty. His family was so poor they could barely put food on the table. His awful eldest uncle's family leeched off everyone, sending only his cousin to school while forcing Shen Ke's parents to work like oxen and horses. You want to use seniority and status to crush me? You want to ruin my future by praising me to death? Shen Ke sneered. You want to play household power games with a history PhD? Then I'll show you what it means to crush someone with knowledge from another dimension! Competing over morality? He played the dutiful son card, manipulating the clan's rigid rules with ease. His eldest uncle had to grit his teeth and put the best food in Shen Ke's bowl, while a few words were enough to turn his stingy grandmother into his number-one fan. Making money? Armed with centuries of knowledge from the future, he wrote A Primer of Everyday Characters and composed The Song of Arithmetic. Just a few scraps of what he knew were enough to astonish the young master of the biggest bookshop in town, who came bearing handfuls of copper coins and begged for his favor. But just as he earned his first pot of gold and prepared to turn his family's fortunes around by splitting from the household, he accidentally uncovered a shocking conspiracy between his hypocritical uncle and a tyrannical landowner... “If you're determined to drive people into a dead end, then I'll change the rules for you today. I, Shen Ke, will make it happen!” See how a six-year-old boy, relying on his own wits, tears into his awful relatives and brings down a tyrannical landowner. In the chaotic, perilous final years of the Ming, with corpses littering the land, he thrives at every turn, earns scholarly honors, defies fate, and ultimately restores the glory of the Ming! [Transmigration] + [Imperial Exams] + [Smart Protagonist] + [No Goody-Two-Shoes] + [Rags-to-Riches Farming] + [Satisfying Knowledge Gap Power Fantasy]