After transmigrating as Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Shou has one simple pleasure: making civil officials miserable.
He slacks off, stirs up trouble, and constantly pokes at the sore spots of the court. Every time an official loses his cool, his “Foolish Emperor System” gains a little more experience.
He trades his irritation points for the [Implementation Rules for Taxing Officials and Gentry as One], then promptly sets up an “Imperial Estate Tax Office.” He uses the Grand Secretary’s fury to unlock the [Modern Naval Training Manual], then turns around and forms the “Imperial Pirate Syndicate.”
And so, a bizarre scene unfolds in the Ming court: the more absurd the emperor on the throne becomes, the more victory reports arrive from the borders, the fuller the national treasury grows, and the rate of cardiovascular disease among the civil officials... shoots straight up.
Years later, as all four seas submit and every nation pays tribute, the Grand Secretary looks back on the past with tears streaming down his face. “Your Majesty, was your original intention... really just to make us miserable?”
