Great Ming: I'm Helping the Mountain Villages, and You Call This the Great Ming?

Ye Bei is a low-ranking civil servant assigned to support a mountain village after losing a competition of whose father had more influence.

He thought the story he had been handed was the usual one: help a poor mountain village develop and grow prosperous, lead its people to a comfortable life, then use his achievements to climb the ranks and get his revenge.

Who could have guessed?

"How is this village so backward that people get all excited just seeing a lighter!"

"The daughter of the richest family in town is drooling over twice-cooked pork? And her father, who keeps putting on airs, is quite the drama queen!"

"It's just an improved potato seedling. Why are you all kneeling to me?"

The poverty in the mountains was far worse than Ye Bei had imagined. All he could do was keep working hard alongside the whole village, until he gradually realized something was wrong.

"Old Zhu, you..."

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