Good Fortune Brings Misfortune

In order to become a high-ranking official in the late Ming Dynasty, a wealthy businessman spent a lot of money to redeem a beautiful prostitute from a brothel. He then made a perfect "internal and external" package to correct the name of the prostitute. After he became a high-ranking official and rose to prominence, one of his fellow wealthy businessmen saw that his great power could be used to amass ill-gotten gains for his salt business. In order to force the high-ranking official to submit, the fellow countryman even forged a "deed of sale" for a prostitute that was presented to the emperor by the high-ranking official, and then adopted the strategy of "revealing the prostitute's identity to the emperor" to force Gao The official bent the law and made huge profits for his own salt business. The high-ranking official used his real power to make profits for the illegal salt business of a wealthy businessman from his hometown. He was forced to resign because he could not bear the heavy pressure from his fellow villagers to make huge profits. But only then did he accidentally discover that there was a fatal flaw in the forged deed of sale. Unfortunately, his official position had been lost and he had nothing to do... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.