The Ultimate Poison Strategist: The Empress Cries That His Schemes Defy Heaven's Will

Xiao He transmigrates to the height of the Tang dynasty, just as the empress rules the court and recruits talented people from across the land. So he enters the imperial court with the soul of a crooked merchant!

Empress: "If you lead your troops on a thousand-mile raid and discover that the enemy has laid an ambush with ten times your numbers, how will you escape?"

Xiao He: "I would gather the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle, then use trebuchets to hurl them into the enemy camp and spread a plague."

Empress: "..."

Empress: "The treasury is empty, the people are starving, and the neighboring kingdoms are closing in. How do we get out of this predicament?"

Xiao He: "Your humble servant has a plan. We can falsely claim that heavenly omens foretell disaster in ten designated cities of the wealthy. Order the people to surrender their family fortunes as offerings to Heaven to ward off disaster. Those who refuse can have their homes secretly set on fire, their entire families killed, and the deaths blamed on Heaven's wrath."

Looking at the smiling Xiao He, the empress felt a chill in her heart. Have I really hired a harbinger of doom more vicious than the King of Hell?!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.