No Need to Fear Exam Fraud: This Young Master Can Travel Between Eras to the 1950s

As the legitimate son of the Li family, the merchant house of the Great Wilderness, Li Guangmo cheated his way into becoming a provincial graduate. But when an exam-fraud scandal broke out, he was forced to retake the exams alongside hundreds of other students.

One poem mourning the farmers and one essay on increasing crop yields were enough to make Li Guangmo realize he was finished.

While taking a trip to the outhouse, he found himself in another world, where he was swept up in a literacy campaign.

Examples from the textbooks:

“Hoeing grain beneath the noonday sun, sweat drips onto the soil. Who knows that every bite of food on your plate comes from hardship?”

“A crop can flourish like a flower, but it all depends on manure.”

Li Guangmo was still regretting everything when he suddenly returned to his own world.

Armed with the poems and methods he learned in the literacy classes, he passed the exams with flying colors.

After taking revenge, he realized he had been targeted, and that his family was under scrutiny.

But he wasn't afraid. He had five thousand years of knowledge from another world at his disposal.

A Mid-Autumn poetry gathering? Ever heard of “When Will the Moon Be Clear and Bright”?

A Qixi poetry gathering? Ever heard of “The Immortal of the Magpie Bridge”?

The metropolitan exam tests you on climbing high? “I will reach the mountain's peak, and see all other mountains dwarfed below.”

The palace exam asks about disaster relief? How about using public works to provide relief?

You want to poach laborers from the Li family? Ever heard of the assembly line?

You want me to govern a famine-stricken county? Sweet potatoes are making their grand debut.

You want me to govern a disaster-struck prefecture? Let's implement public health regulations.

You want to kill me? My portable arsenal is on standby.

You can't kill me, so you make a mere scholar commander of the Northern Army?

With full military pay and all the food and drink they could want, I'll show you what it means for the Northern Army to be unstoppable once its soldiers are properly fed.

I recover lost lands and expand the borders, becoming so powerful I threaten the throne. You send me twelve gold warrants and condemn me to death on trumped-up charges.

Li Guangmo raises his arm and cries: “Long live the people!”