Running an Academy After Scamming the Entire Court

What should you do after being expelled from the Imperial College?

Jiang Ci: Build an academy of my own, one even better than the Imperial College.

[White Deer Academy, the greatest academy of its age and the greatest in all history]

[Hailed as the true origin of the ivory tower]

[The promised land and spiritual home of scholars, and the most brilliant chapter in the history of the dynasty]

[In a word: If you haven't walked through White Deer Academy's gates, then a thousand volumes of study have all been in vain]

In response to this shamelessly false recruitment campaign:

The Imperial College's director scoffed: It's fake! White Deer Academy doesn't matter at all!

The Imperial College students were even more disdainful: The Imperial College is the greatest academy under heaven, and everyone's first choice!

Until:

SSR Grand Secretary joins White Deer Academy

SSR Minister of Revenue joins White Deer Academy

SSR Prince Rui joins White Deer Academy

The SSR director of the Imperial College switches over to White Deer Academy with his young son, who is still studying

Imperial College students: ???

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The spring examination of the twenty-first year of Yongxi was hailed as the greatest imperial examination in a thousand years.

The great academies were packed with talent, locked in fierce competition. Every candidate they put forward was a once-in-a-century prodigy.

Then White Deer Academy appeared out of nowhere.

The top three scholars, the Zhuangyuan, Bangyan, and Tanhua, all came from White Deer Academy.

Its second-tier jinshi and third-tier tong jinshi candidates swept the rankings, claiming half the places on the list.

People said that of all the literary talent under heaven, White Deer Academy had eight tenths, while all the other academies together had only two.

Readers from every corner of the dynasty wept and pleaded for admission to White Deer Academy. From then on, its gates were trampled down four times every three days.

Later, the students who graduated from White Deer Academy became the backbone of the entire dynasty, together writing an even more glorious chapter in its history.

Jiang Ci, who founded White Deer Academy, was an expelled student of the Imperial College, the Zhuangyuan of the twenty-first year of Yongxi, and the wise emperor who revived the dynasty, expanded its borders, and ushered in a golden age.

Looking back, nearly everyone believed that Jiang Ci had conned the entire court into joining White Deer Academy to pave the way for his future ascension to the throne.

Jiang Ci: ...Is it possible that becoming emperor was just an unintended consequence? I went to all that trouble to con the entire court because I really just wanted to run an academy?

I just happened to build the greatest academy in all history.

[Academy management]

[Ancient school life]

[The ancient version of Admission Letter]

Theme: Sharpen yourself through teaching, grow without stopping, draw your sword, and stand up to danger and restore order.