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He transmigrates to the Qin Dynasty and becomes Hu Hai's lackey.
Watching the blades flash during the palace coup at Shaqiu, Chen Qing decides that to survive, he'll become a corrupt official even more ruthless than Zhao Gao!
Chen Qing clings to Zhao Gao's leg. “My lord! Spare me! I can take Hu Hai out drinking, whoring, and gambling, and turn him into the greatest good-for-nothing in the realm. Then all of Great Qin will be yours!”
Zhao Gao is moved to tears. “This boy is just like me! He's my trusted confidant!”
Zhao Gao: “Go squeeze every last coin out of those rich merchants!”
Chen Qing: “You got it!” He turns around and sets up a royal club and luxury glassware, swindling the remnants of the Six Kingdoms out of every penny and filling the state treasury.
The commoners: “Lord Chen is truly a just magistrate who robs the rich to help the poor!”
Zhao Gao: “Go launch massive construction projects and drain the people of their strength!”
Chen Qing: “No problem!” He turns around and invents cement and gunpowder, then builds a direct road to Rome. Great Qin's iron cavalry can now conquer a nation in seven days.
The soldiers: “Lord Chen made us rich. He's Great Qin's god of war!”
A few years later, Chen Qing looks at Great Qin, with envoys from every nation paying tribute, and Hu Hai holding a Gatling gun. He prepares to abscond with the money and flee with his wife to the Americas, where he can rule as a petty king.
Just then, the lid of the “late emperor's coffin,” which has been shut for three years, suddenly flies off!
Qin Shi Huang steps out with a dark expression, holding Chen Qing's “ledgers of corruption.”
“Beloved Chen, scaring people with green flames in my memorial hall was one thing.”
“Pickling me like a salted fish for the entire journey was one thing too.”
“But what did you mean when you said, ‘As soon as the First Emperor is well and truly dead, I can go to the Americas and build a harem’? Explain that to me!”
Chen Qing looks at the risen First Emperor and nearly faints. “Your Majesty, I... I really only wanted to be a corrupt official!”
