When Qin Shi Huang starts wondering whether building the Great Wall counts as a KPI or overtime, and Qianlong floods his memorials with bullet comments, welcome to His Majesty Is Working Hard Again Today!
From Ying Zheng, who conquered the six kingdoms, to Jiaqing, who furiously impeached Heshen, emperors throughout the dynasties find themselves in the midst of a collective workplace crisis:
Li Si stays up all night making a PowerPoint to prove that “burning books and burying scholars was an environmental initiative.”
Li Shimin turns the Xuanwu Gate Incident into The Complete Record of a Brothers’ Team-Building Event.
Su Shi makes a comeback as a top-tier star in the food world with his “pork reviews.”
The Jiajing Emperor gets hooked on alchemy blind boxes and blows up his furnace.
There are razor-sharp quips in the margins of court memorials, secret recipes for horrendous dishes leaked from the imperial kitchen, and eight hundred schemes in the power struggles between ruler and ministers. Turns out the dragon throne is the most competitive job in the world!
