From the Start as a Ninth-Rank Official, I Rebuild the Republic

[Alternate history + political intrigue + slow burn + no System + not a brainless power fantasy]

On the ninth day of the third month in the twentieth year of the Republic, the Grand Steward died in office. The last person he saw before his death was a low-ranking copyist named Li Heming. That year, Li Heming was twenty years old.