Great Ming: I, Hai Rui, Won't Be a Lone Minister. I'll Be a Power Broker

His soul transmigrates to the end of the Jiajing era in the Ming dynasty, where he becomes the lowest-ranking official in the court’s food chain: the seventh-rank county magistrate Hai Rui!

In his previous life, he was incorruptible and famously hailed as “the most upright official under heaven.” Yet he lived in poverty, failed to change the Ming dynasty in the slightest, and only realized in the end that he was nothing more than a pawn wielded in the power games of Jiajing, Yan Song, Xu Jie, and the others.

This time, he puts on a show of being even more fierce and unyielding than before, a “Hai the Bookstand” whose reputation as an upright official serves as the perfect cover!

In secret, however, he is a ruthless schemer, using the entire court as his chessboard and vowing to go from pawn to the one wielding the blade!

When the “replace rice with mulberry” policy becomes a butcher’s knife, Hai Rui turns the tables, redirecting its force and driving it straight into the powerful Yan faction. One move breaks the deadlock, and the whole realm is shaken!

**Emperor Jiajing**: “What a mad dog! I was just worrying that I had no one to use. Go bite them for me! Tear them to pieces, and I’ll give you even more power!”

**Grand Secretary Yan Song**: “You brat! How dare a mere seventh-rank nobody see through the secrets of my faction? Grind him into dust!”

**Second Grand Secretary Xu Jie**: “This boy... what a sharp blade! But why do I keep feeling it could turn on me at any moment?”

**“Junior Grand Secretary” Yan Shifan**: “Impossible! My plan is flawless! Can he see through everything? Who is he, really?”

From then on, the Ming court has not only its most “upright” official, but also its most “ruthless” power broker!