[Alternate History] [Imperial Exam from the Start] [Get Stronger by Watching Ads] [Bastard Son Builds a Business] [Empress] [Revealing His Hand] [Information Advantage]
Xiao Xian transmigrated to the Great Yan dynasty and became the wastrel bastard son of the Minister of Revenue, a young man with no interest in studying.
It happened to be the moment Empress Jiang Zhaoning ascended the throne and personally presided over the imperial examinations!
The exam paper lay before him. He couldn't write a single line about the classics, while the person beside him had already filled half a page.
Luckily, the [Watch Ads System] awakened just in time!
All he had to do was watch an ad to claim a variety of rewards!
Xiao Xian hurriedly opened it.
High-yield seeds, a soap formula, blueprints for a curved-plow, steelmaking technology...
They were all useful things, but what did any of them have to do with the exam questions?
With the deadline approaching, Xiao Xian was close to tears. He could only write down the knowledge he'd just received.
For the essay on the classics: "How to grow sweet potatoes..."
For the policy essay: "The uses of curved plows and waterwheels..."
For the poetry exam: "Modern army field tactics..."
After handing in his paper, Xiao Xian was already prepared to fail.
He couldn't count on passing the exams for now, so he would make some money by watching ads. He couldn't keep living under his family's thumb forever.
But after passing through several hands, his utterly nonsensical exam paper ended up before the empress.
At first, even the empress thought it was ridiculous.
That is, until the farming tools in the drawings were built. Then the empress could no longer sit still.
"Seal off the entire city! I want to meet this man myself!"
Very nice! Tied in one go!