A Piece of Paper Determines the Situation

A land deed can bring a dead person to life or force a living person to death. Shen Yan traveled to Dayan in the Wentong era and became a poor scholar in Qingxi County. It's not that no one reads here, but the government notices deliberately lack one sentence, and the powerful land deeds always have one more word. The nobles have the interpretation of the classics, but the common people don't even have the right to check the records related to themselves. He regained the widow's property with a complaint, recovered life-saving food with a delivery document, and leveraged the world's official circles with a set of inventory. Until the emperor put the country's cultural system into his hands and personally deleted the four articles that restricted imperial power. Only then did Shen Yan realize that what he was really fighting against was never a corrupt official, but something that everyone wanted to monopolize - the power to interpret words.