After dying suddenly while working in the bureaucracy, Shen Yan is reborn as a newly appointed scholar-official. He thinks the worst fate he could face is being sent to govern some poor county.
It isn’t until he sees the county’s people so hungry they’re chewing tree bark that he understands: this isn’t just poverty, it’s a matter of life and death!
“My lord, what are we going to do?”
Shen Yan smacks the magistrate’s block. “What else can we do? Everyone, grab your broken bowls. We’re headed for the prefectural capital...”
“To beg!”
While magistrates in other counties are busy collecting taxes, he’s setting up performance reviews for beggars.
While other counties are building city walls, he’s training people in “professional begging techniques.”
When the prefectural authorities fly into a rage and send troops to wipe them out, he’s already slipped back to the county with his elite Beggars’ Gang.
Years later, an envoy from an enemy state steps into the county and stares in astonishment.
“This glass mirror... this running water... You call this a poor county?!”
Shen Yan sits calmly in the county office and smiles. “Keep it quiet. We begged our way to all of this.”
So far, it's quite interesting, it's interesting to watch, and it's more engaging to read on!
Very good👍🏻, the subject of the novel is very novel and quite funny. In a word, I highly recommend it.