After transmigrating into the body of a puppet emperor, he is immediately forced by the “loyal officials” filling the court to issue an edict admitting his faults and live on rough fare. Chancellor Wang Jian leads the public pleas, then turns around and spends a fortune in a brothel. Just as this crowd of hypocrites is about to torment him to death, the Tyrant Simulator activates!
The more foolish the ruler, the stronger the nation's fortunes? The more he squanders, the fuller the treasury?
“Your Majesty, there's a severe drought in the north. Please cut spending!”
I immediately ordered, “Build me a Star-Gathering Tower, and pave the floors with gold!”
[Ding! Tyrant Points +1,000! Reward: the treacherous minister Yan Song!]
“Your Majesty, you must not slaughter loyal officials!”
Looking at the ledger of corruption Yan Song had submitted, I laughed even harder. “Anyone who's taken bribes, have them beheaded all the way from the marketplace to the city gates!”
[Ding! Tyrant Points +5,000! Reward: the famously corrupt He Shen!]
The loyal officials across the court wailed, “Your Majesty, you've been deceived by treacherous ministers! Great Xia is doomed!”
As I looked at the treasury swollen with the riches seized from Yan Song's household, He Shen's policy requiring both officials and gentry to pay grain taxes, and the nation's rapidly rising fortunes, I laughed inwardly. Doomed? No. It's the good times for you powerful clans that are over!
Then the Prime Minister can really live