In the winter of the 12th year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Jin traveled through time to a poor scholar boy in Shangrao County, Jiangxi Province.
This year, Emperor Zhu Houzhao of the Ming Dynasty was visiting Xuanfu in the border town.
This year, Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning in Jiangxi, was secretly preparing to rebel.
This year, Xu Jin, who was living in poverty, was looking for a way out, and finally chose to take the imperial examination. From the county examination, the government examination, the hospital examination, and then the township examination, he passed all the tests, but step by step he was involved in the vortex of Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao's rebellion...