The Best Gangster in Ming Dynasty

One-sentence summary: The story of a madman who was sentenced to beheading for writing poems and cursing others. He was pardoned on the execution ground and became an official. From then on, he ran rampant in the officialdom as a "dagger", overthrew powerful ministers and then retreated bravely. The protagonist Liang Ximing: a poor scholar from Shaoxing, gifted with "photographic memory + logical crushing", bad eight-legged writing but amazing poetry. Because of his "Poem Satirical about the Dynasty", which became famous in the capital, he was sentenced to be beheaded. He was pardoned by Emperor Jiajing and granted the same background as a Jinshi. He has an extremely serious personality, is venomous, does not know how to adapt, and firmly believes that "right is right." Highlights of the anti-routine: ① The protagonist is not a genius but a "partial talent" who becomes famous by scolding others; ② He is promoted not because of his ability, but because "no one dares to take it". He is kicked to the worst position but always cleans up the mess; ③ The biggest enemy is not corrupt officials, but "good people" - those idealists with high morals but stubbornness. Core plot: Wrote poems in the execution ground and was pardoned → Joined the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and offended Yan Shifan → Was imprisoned for exposing the Yellow River Case → Demoted to Nanjing to secretly collect evidence of the Party's crimes → Met Yang Jisheng and witnessed him being tortured to death for impeaching Yan Song Death → Joined forces with Xu Jie to overthrow Yan Song with the help of a Taoist priest → After being promoted to a high-ranking official, he clashed with the new chief minister Gao Gong due to differences in his ideas → Resigned and went into seclusion and returned to his hometown to teach → He wrote "Remonstrances" and died at the age of seventy-five. The ending is sublimated: the epitaph has only eight characters - "A life of uprightness and eternity." Some of the students he taught inherited this character.