Study well and you can enter public service; serve well and you can become a minister; become a minister and you can build a great nation. The Chinese people share a dream of a great nation. Whether in the present, the future, or the past, we should all strive toward it. The man who forged the world's greatest power in the sixteenth century.
In the spring of the thirty-sixth year of the Jiajing reign, a modern man who had failed to shoulder the mission of China is reborn in the body of a poor scholar in a village in western Guangdong. He passes the imperial examinations and enters officialdom, soon finding a new direction in life. The history of the Chinese people, too, is about to be rewritten...
