After Shen Yan, a modern law lecturer, stayed up late preparing for lessons, he woke up and became a down-and-out scholar in Qingshi County, Yong Dynasty.
Just six months after my father died of illness, the clan leader came to the house with a forged twelve-tael IOU to demand debt.
The ancestral home and paddy fields were to be confiscated, the nine-year-old sister was to be sold to the Qian family as a maid, and the widowed mother was forced to kowtow in the snow to beg for mercy.
Since they can't reason, let them listen to Dayong's Law.
The fake IOU was exposed in public and the clan leader was forced to make a new contract. Within three days, he had to collect three taels of silver to save his family.
No money?
Then write pleadings for people, write petitions for county magistrates and civilians, and write relief requests for disaster victims, and then use a pile of scrap paper to make enlightenment copybooks that everyone can afford.
By accident, he saved the old mother of a soldier who was killed in battle, put an end to the Chongcang Rebellion of hundreds of hungry people, and was appreciated by the emperor of the dynasty.
Now that he has money and reputation, it's time to get on the right track with the imperial examination.
Unexpectedly, the patriarch of the Shen family accepted money and refused to write clean documents. The Qian family master also imitated copybooks and stuffed treasonous scriptures into the hands of schoolchildren, and in turn framed him for evil intentions.
Just when he was about to rely on the imperial examination to protect his family, he became a prisoner of the county government.
Since some people want to use clan rules to suppress him, use power to block him, and use perjury to harm him, then he will use the pen in his hand to write about the corrupt officials and profiteers of the Great Yong Dynasty and the unfairness of the world!
