In the first year of Jiajing, in Wujiang County, South Zhili Province, twelve-year-old Shen Mo was pushed into the spring flood by his cousin. On the verge of death, the memory of his past life suddenly awakened - he was supposed to be a master of history in the 21st century, but now he has become the "idiot" who everyone in Shenjia Village shakes his head.
The family property is coveted, and the clan is like a tiger's den. How can a young man who can't even recite the Three Character Classic stand up?
Fortunately, he remembered every breath of this dynasty in the next forty years: the storm of the Great Ceremony, the determination of Emperor Jiajing, the rise of Zhang Cong, and when the iron hooves of the Japanese pirates broke through the southeastern seaboard.
It took him seven years from the end of the county examination to the policy review of the palace examination. When Emperor Jiajing read the test papers in the Qianqing Palace, his eyes stopped on the four words "practical learning can be used" - this idiot who once squatted on the stone bridge to tease ants finally stepped into the center of the whirlpool of power in the Ming Dynasty.
The imperial examination is just the ticket. What he really wants to do is to give this empire a new future.
