I Am a Concubine's Son from a Military Household, and I Rely on Conscription to Rule the World

In the twelfth year of Qianxi of the Great Xia Dynasty, Yan Xingchu—a young illegitimate son from the second branch of a military household—sets out on a scholarly journey to find his father, who has been missing without a trace for six years. As he travels, war flares up once more in the northwest, and after half a decade of silence, the imperial court issues a new conscription edict. By a twist of fate, Xingchu takes the conscription examination and passes, earning a position as a trial scribe in the records office of the prefectural garrison under the Eagle-Soaring Army.