Bianliang Plan: Beichen Record

In the 19th year of Dajing's reign, undercurrents surged beneath the surface of peace. Taizong Chai Zongxun was well versed in the art of balance. He allowed the four factions of civil servants, generals, eunuchs, and relatives to fight against each other. It was difficult to recover from the accumulated abuses in the court, and the suffering of the people was increasing. The Liao Dynasty in the north was eyeing him, and the dynasty was like a dangerous ship about to collapse. Chen Zhixing, a modern history scholar, accidentally traveled through time and became Shen Yan, a scholar from a poor family in Bianliang. His father died three years ago, his mother was ill, and his family was in ruins. He was also being made things difficult by subordinate officials and was on the verge of losing his qualifications for the imperial examination. He relied on his millennium of institutional wisdom and insight into the emperor's mind to break through the desperate situation: he relied on his talent and learning, and became famous for his filial piety. He safely obtained the qualifications for the imperial examination, and once he was named on the gold list, he entered the Hanlin Academy. Being in the whirlpool of power, Shen Yan did not join any party or be radical, but took advantage of the situation. He exposed corruption cases, clarified financial and taxation dilemmas, dealt with powerful ministers and princes, and gradually became a person relied on by the emperor and looked upon by all parties. From an orphan in a poor family to a pillar of the imperial court, he used hard work to eliminate long-standing shortcomings, used strategies to stabilize the government, and used patterns to protect his family and country. Internally, it rectified official administration, smoothed water transportation, and appeased people's livelihood; externally, it organized the army to prepare for war, resisted powerful enemies, and stabilized the border. Shen Yan used what he had learned to save the great peace from falling, and to support the country from falling. Finally, in the ever-changing Bianliang City, he blazed a path from a poor family to the kings of Yao and Shun, and to the stability of the world.