The Most Powerful Prince Does Not Necessarily Have to Be the Emperor

I have seen princes serving as soldiers, I have seen princes serving as generals, I have seen princes serving as imperial envoys, but I have never seen princes serving as county magistrates. Zhao Yi, the tenth prince of the Kowloon Kingdom, could not stand the misbehavior of the eldest prince, the current prince Zhao Ding, and contradicted his father several times. Fortunately, the fifth brother Lian Wang Zhao Kang always wanted to protect him. In order to prevent Zhao Yi from getting too involved in court struggles that he was unfamiliar with, Zhao Kang interceded for him, concealed his identity, and served as a county magistrate in Jiangnan, which was considered as experience. However, what I didn't expect was that as soon as Zhao Yi took office, he began to accept bribes from the local nobles, did some illegal activities for them, and even went so far as to kill people and silence them. In just one month, he collected more than 200,000 taels. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.