The Cunning County Magistrate's Rise to Power

Jiang Xiaozhou transmigrates and becomes a county magistrate! Just as he’s preparing to enjoy the good life of a powerful official in ancient times, his maid bursts into tears and tells him: the previous magistrate ran off with the funds, the river levee has burst and floodwaters are closing in on the city, and an imperial envoy has arrived with a three-day deadline. Either hand over 100,000 taels of silver, or lose your head! One hundred thousand taels? Jiang Xiaozhou looks around the empty county yamen. He can’t even scrape together ten taels! What can he do? Just wait to die? Not a chance! As a modern top salesman, Jiang Xiaozhou puts his gift of gab to work. He persuades local gentry to “invest in the future” and creates the first water-conservancy construction bonds in history. He solves the food shortage with potatoes, makes a fortune building roads with cement, and rakes in the cash selling soap... Three years later, a dilapidated county that was once dirt poor becomes the richest county in the land! Jiang Xiaozhou rises from a seventh-rank county magistrate to prefect, then a capital official, and ultimately the empire’s foremost reformer! And along the way, he even brings nine stunning beauties home... The emperor pats him on the shoulder and says, “Xiaozhou, half my empire came from your silver tongue!” Jiang Xiaozhou replies, “Your Majesty, we’re good brothers. Don’t make it sound so bad. It’s called strategic planning!” A hilarious tale of a modern sales ace climbing the ranks in ancient times. From saving his own skin to making a fortune, from county magistrate to powerful minister, watch him change an entire dynasty with nothing but his gift of gab!