In the spring of the twelfth year of Yongxi's reign, Gu Tingzhao, the minister of household affairs, was sentenced to death. His entire family was confiscated, and his only son Gu Huaijin was imprisoned. Everyone said that the Gu family was doomed.
No one knew that the boy waiting for death in the prison had just had his core changed three days ago - a soul from a thousand years in the future. He did not cry or fuss, and only made three calculations: why the burned military rations did not match the weight, which waterway the swapped grains took, and what was hidden in the eight words before his father died.
From then on, there was a "son of a rebellious minister" in the court: wherever he went, troubles would happen - grain and grass were burned, salt taxes were deficient, military salaries were embezzled, and imperial examinations were cheated. Everyone was waiting to see him killed by thunder, but he walked out of the thunder alive every time, and even dug out the people buried under the thunder. The emperor wanted to kill him, but he couldn't bear to kill him, so he said: wait a little longer.
What he didn't know was that what his father left behind was not a relic, but a net that had been laid out for twenty years. Salt and grain support half the court. He worked his way from the death row to the Golden Palace, closed the net for his father, and earned the dragon chair for himself.
