From Failed Scholar to Absolute Power

A history graduate student transmigrates into the fictional Great Zhou dynasty, becoming a failed scholar who has been jilted, expelled from his clan, and left so poor he has only half a bag of brown rice. In a world without Li Bai or Du Fu, he carries with him five thousand years of civilization, and starting from a single bowl of brown rice, he draws the entire era into his game. — Description from novelcodex.org