Su Jian spent twenty years cutting a bloody swath through the Ming court, eventually becoming a ruthless grand secretary.
Then the System arrived.
[Ding! Bound to the Poor Scholar's Rise System. Identity determined: impoverished licentiate.]
[Beginner quest: Beat up the village bully. Reward: half a jin of coarse rice and two taels of silver!]
Su Jian looked at the ten million taels of silver he'd just seized in a raid and fell into deep thought.
For a lifespan reward, he took off his ceremonial robe and put on straw sandals.
From then on, a hundred thousand Embroidered Uniform Guards secretly sealed off the village, while the Ming navy, disguised as fishing boats, escorted the river route.
When reckless, corrupt gentry and arrogant river bandits really did mistake him for a penniless scholar and tried to trample him...
Su Jian sighed. "Embroidered Uniform Guards, come clean this up. Don't get in the way of this Grand Secretary taking the imperial exams."
