I Pretended to Be a Captain, So How Did I Become an Imperial Marshal?

Li Mo, an unemployed worker in Dongdu, is twenty-seven years old and has achieved nothing.

That is, until his friend is arrested by the Procuratorate for violating imperial law. For an ordinary citizen, rescuing someone from the Procuratorate is harder than climbing to the heavens.

So he spends twelve silver yuan at a black-market tailor shop in Dongdu to order a captain's uniform. Then he lies that he has orders from the Imperial Guard Command, tricking a patrol unit into his hands along with its twenty-five rifles.

He plans to take those twenty-five men by train to Lin'an, stage a fake military takeover, and snatch his friend from the Procuratorate.

In the Dongming Empire, a soldier's word is the law. And now, he is the one giving the orders.

Win the gamble, and they live.

Lose, and he had nothing to begin with.