Three Years as County Magistrate, Shocking Emperor Li Er

[Historical farming, alternate-history power fantasy, court intrigue, and a corrupt county magistrate]

After transmigrating, Liu Yun becomes a county magistrate on the southwestern frontier of the Great Qian dynasty. Hoping to spend his days at the pleasure quarters and his nights listening to music, he devotes himself to good governance for three years, transforming impoverished Mao County into the finest county in all of Great Qian.

Wide asphalt roads, exquisite glass, and silk stockings beloved by men and women of all ages... He has brought them all into being. Yet the memorials he sends to the court every year are full of complaints about poverty, natural disasters, banditry, raids by the barbarians, and people going hungry...

Then one day, Emperor Li Er of Great Qian arrives in Mao County.

This county town is more prosperous than the capital?

The county magistrate's private treasury is richer than my imperial treasury?

And the barbarian tribes are offering barbarian women in marriage to secure an alliance?

Li Er is stunned. “How dare you, Liu Yun, you scoundrel of a magistrate, the worst official in Great Qian! I shall confiscate your estate for the state!”