A Scholar from a Humble Family

The introduction says that the gentry in the Jin Dynasty paid taxes together? Is that true?

The protagonist in the first chapter is like a lecherous glutton; is it really necessary to keep emphasizing that? Shennong is dead. 😓😓😓

The term "humble family" (寒门) is used in contrast to "high family" (高门), also known as "red family" (朱门). If no one in a family for three generations has held a high-ranking official position (rank three or above), they fall from the category of "high family" to "humble family." Even a prefectural governor is only a fifth-rank official, and a third-rank official is a governor (刺史).

Can a teenager really beat an adult soldier? Don't you have to use your brain when writing a book? Even if your people are all robots, and you can train them to be like that in just over ten days, can your knowledge outweigh your instinctive reactions?

People actually tipped this? So you're supposed to have great self-control, but you're just mesmerized by your sister-in-law? And then there are comments like "stunned," "perfect," and "reluctant to leave"—it's disgusting! If this is what you call great self-control, then I must be the reincarnation of Liu Xiahui!

I'm speechless. A harem isn't just about taking any woman you see, let alone just anyone pretty. Drooling over his own sister-in-law is just like the Great Feng Emperor. It's not just vulgar, it's downright obscene.

Don't be swayed by the negative reviews; this book is very well-written and highly recommended.

Honestly, back in the Jin Dynasty, gentry and commoners all paid taxes. At that time, powerful families controlled both military force and public opinion. Unless you had absolute military power as a guarantee, it wouldn't work. It's similar to the "Decree of Grace" (推恩令), where the central government had to subdue the local authorities before the decree could be implemented, not the other way around.

There are so many novice readers these days, it's gotten to the point where anyone can write a novel. While novels are meant to entertain, you should at least have some historical logic! The protagonist goes to the Eastern Jin Dynasty to implement reforms? Tell me, author, how are you any better than Wang Mang? And those powerful literary families are completely incompetent?

After reading a dozen or so chapters, I roughly understand the book's plot: a story of a lower-middle-class person's struggle in the ancient imperial court after transmigrating to ancient times. It's quite frustrating and unsatisfying to watch. Even if it's not about time travel and rebellion, being a bandit king in a mountain stronghold would be better than the protagonist's painstaking efforts to squeeze into the ancient officialdom.