Playing Ball: Zhu Yuanzhang Discovers I'm a Corrupt Official

After transmigrating to the early Ming dynasty, Li Lin ran into Zhu Yuanzhang at a tavern. Zhu Yuanzhang recognized him as the grandson he had lost years ago.

Li Lin took office as a county magistrate and began his career as a corrupt official.

He plundered one hundred thousand taels of silver from Blackwind Stronghold, handed over five hundred taels to the government, and pocketed the rest.

He turned the sale of official posts into an industry, making the process transparent. If you had money, you could become a high-ranking official. Simple as that.

Watching Li Lin, the empire's biggest parasite, Zhu Yuanzhang was so furious he stamped his feet.

"It's all my fault. I should have dismissed him when he was still a county magistrate. Then he wouldn't have become a corrupt official capable of shaking the foundations of the Ming dynasty."

Not long afterward, Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned.

"What? He embezzled all that money for the Ming dynasty? He improved agriculture, wiped out the bandits, swept away the Japanese pirates with cannons, and the empress of Europe even sent her daughter to marry his grandson?"

"What? He embezzled money to advance civilization? He invented the steam engine and the light bulb to illuminate the world, and Ming ships caught fish to enrich the Ming people's diets?"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.