The Empress’s Great Traitor? If I Fall, the Empire Falls with Me

[No System + Empress + A disastrous start + Political intrigue and a comeback + Plenty of beautiful women who all throw themselves at him + Western Church + A mortal threatens the gods with a ledger] “Qin Xiao, you embezzled ten million taels. Today is the day you die!” In the great hall, every official impeached him, and the Empress was dead set on killing him. Qin Xiao, who had transmigrated into the Great Qian's most powerful minister, smiled calmly. “Your Majesty, if I fall, who will pay the three hundred thousand soldiers on the frontier? Who will plug the hole in the budget for your new gardens? As for the Great Qian's mountain of unpaid debts, who but me can settle them?” That very night, the Empress rushed to the Qin estate and begged him not to die. As a top-tier financial analyst, Qin Xiao understood one thing: the most sophisticated embezzlement is making sure the nation cannot survive without your money! He stands against the Son of Heaven above and protects the common people below. If this world cannot tell right from wrong, then he will become the most brazen king of balancing the books! “Your Majesty, this realm owes me. How do you plan to pay me back? Perhaps... with your hand in marriage?” “I'm a corrupt minister? That's right. I take bribes, wreak havoc on the laws, and show no respect for my sovereign.” “But if I fall, the frontier soldiers will have no food, and the disaster victims south of the Yangtze will have no clothes. The Great Qian realm will collapse in an instant!” Qin Xiao stands at the pinnacle of power, looking down on the upright officials who want him dead but dare not act. With modern financial analysis, he toys with political machinations in the palm of his hand; with his brutal logic of balancing the books, he sweeps through rival nations like a storm. The Empress wants to reclaim her power? She can settle the century-old historical debt first! “Qin Xiao, just how much more are you going to embezzle?” Qin Xiao draws the Empress close by her slender waist and points to the scene of prosperity, with all nations paying tribute. “Until there are no bad debts left in the world, until this realm belongs to just the two of us... for all eternity!”