Farm Taxes Are Being Embezzled? I’ll Read Until It Breaks My Books to Pass the Exam
(Alternate History · Imperial Examination · Warm and Cozy · Family Life · Single Female Lead) He Mingfeng transmigrated. Good news: the knowledge in his head is his golden finger. Bad news: he’s become a village idiot, his family is dirt poor, and his grandmother looks at him like he’s a money-losing burden. A hellish opening? No problem! This “foolish son” instantly becomes sharp-minded, shocking the entire village. He catches fish, sets up a stall, and just as he earns a little money, all the men in the family are arrested and sent to prison by cruel tax collectors! He Mingfeng grits his teeth: clearly, I still need an official post! The imperial examinations are the way to get in! So from the town all the way to the capital, He Mingfeng advances step by step, smashing every doubt in his path. Others become juren and their ancestors smoke with joy; He Mingfeng blazes through the exams in one unstoppable streak and eventually becomes the top scholar. A foolish son descends as a star of literature, and Old He’s ancestral grave isn’t just smoking—it’s blasting golden auspicious clouds! Even the whole village starts thinking: maybe studying really can put food on the table? On the golden throne hall, the young emperor Lin Jingyuan looks at He Mingfeng as if he were a human wish-granting machine. “Esteemed minister, you truly have great talent! I have one matter...” He Mingfeng’s eyelid twitches; he senses something bad. Sure enough, from that point on he becomes the emperor’s professional supplier of bad ideas. Running out of grain transport funds? “Your Majesty, let’s build a model for dynamic monitoring of the grain transport system!” Prince Huai cries himself unconscious on the riverbank with an abacus in his arms. Corruption among the powerful? “Your Majesty, set up an anonymous reporting box and performance KPIs!” The entire court destroys its little ledgers overnight. The treasury is empty? “Your Majesty, how about sea trade?” Cargo ships bring back ten thousand taels of silver. Watching the emperor’s increasingly eager gaze, He Mingfeng says, “I just wanted to take the civil service exam and lie flat. Pick another sheep to shear!”
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