The Imperial Exams: You Were Supposed to Work Off Your Debt as a Long-Term Laborer, but You Passed All Six Exams?

[Alternate History] [Transmigration] [Civil Service Career] [Practical Statecraft] [Political Schemes and Promotion]

Lu Zhao, a scholar of institutional history, awakens to the wisdom of his past life. The moment he opens his eyes, he finds himself trapped in a seemingly hopeless case in the Yixian County court!

A crooked grain merchant has joined forces with corrupt clerks, using a forged thirty-year labor contract to cut off his livelihood and ruin his official prospects!

Lu Zhao gives a cold laugh and throws down his study, “An Examination of the Actual Cloth Tax from the Loom Workshops,” exposing years of missing tax revenue throughout the county. He turns the new magistrate’s blade against the vermin, striking them down and having his name restored to the registers in open court!

His family is destitute, and his clan is pressuring him? He offers them a multi-shuttle flying loom, sharing the profits with the charitable granary. He binds the clan together with shared interests and raises its walls into a shield for himself!

The bitter cold of the second month freezes the examination cells? He brews cold-resistant clear glue ink, writes so the characters show through the page, and defeats the county’s scholars to take first place!

The prefectural exam, academy exam, provincial exam, metropolitan exam, and palace exam! He wins top honors at every level, taking all three top titles and then all six!

From an abandoned son of a poor family to the top scholar of the first class, from managing the grain transport canals to becoming Grand Secretary. He reforms governance, balances state finances, opens maritime trade, and cleans up officialdom. Watch Lu Zhao use his unmatched practical skills to crush the great clans and powerful ministers, and take command of the realm!