After Helping the Empress Destroy Her Kingdom, I Leveled the Wheels and Sealed the City for Three Days

I transmigrate to the Great Zhou as its new top-ranked scholar, and think I'll rise to high office. Instead, the ministers push me forward as a scapegoat to oversee disaster relief and cover up their embezzlement.

If that's the case, there's no point in keeping a low profile!

Minister of Revenue: “Your Majesty, Li Wenhao, the new top-ranked scholar, mixed sand into the relief grain. The people are furious. Please order his immediate execution!”

Empress: “Not one of the 300,000 disaster victims starved to death, and more than ten thousand sent a petition praising Li. What crime has he committed?”

Turkic Khagan: “Your Majesty of Great Zhou, Li Wenhao has cut off our wool purchases. My people have no clothes to wear, no food to eat, and no soldiers to deploy. You must kill Li Wenhao to quell my anger, or else...”

Empress: “You just said you have no soldiers to deploy. Why should I listen to you? Come, send the troops against the Turks and flatten the grasslands!”

Enemy nation: “Li Wenhao tricked our merchants into buying government bonds, promising tenfold returns in a year, then fled with the principal and left our merchants with nothing. We demand an explanation from the emperor of Great Zhou!”

Empress: “The treasury of Great Zhou is full. I'll have Li Wenhao bring a hundred thousand troops to your capital and explain things to your emperor in person!”

After Great Zhou unifies the Nine Provinces, the empress rewards those who have earned merit: “Li Wenhao, everyone calls you a poison strategist and the living King of Hell. I've gone to great lengths to protect you. How will you repay me?”

Li Wenhao: “Isn't my wholehearted support for Your Majesty enough?”