The Cautious Accountant of the Hongwu Era

After transmigrating to the Hongwu era, Chen Wen became a minor official in the Ministry of Revenue, just as Zhu Yuanzhang's blade swept through the bureaucracy and officials' heads rolled.

Fortunately, he awakened a data-driven mindset. Anything could be turned into data, and anything could be made into a process.

Martial arts experts?

In my eyes, they're just mobile stats: Attack Power: 85. Threat Level: High.

The rise and fall of dynasties?

In my mind, they're crystal-clear charts of the rise and fall of a dynasty's fortune.

He only wanted to be a bookkeeper who could keep his head down and survive, so he used a risk assessment report to avoid a death sentence and a double-entry bookkeeping system to catch the eye of Prince of Yan Zhu Di.

During the Jingnan Campaign, he stayed behind the scenes.

While generals fought and bled on the front lines, he quietly submitted analyses of weak points in the enemy's supply lines.

As the court's strategists racked their brains, he already had the succession project Gantt chart mapped out in detail.

When the Yongle Emperor ascended the throne and sought to reward his meritorious officials, Chen Wen instead knelt and begged for an idle post. "Your Majesty, I only know how to keep accounts."

He thought he could keep lying low forever, until one day Yao Guangxiao placed a confidential memorial titled The Data Foundations of Three Centuries of National Fortune on Zhu Di's desk...

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