Great Ming: A Brocade Guard from the Start, I Turn Around and Slaughter the Corrupt Officials

[Late Ming] [Make money] [Purge corrupt officials] [No System] [Revive the Ming]

Song Lin, a history-novel enthusiast and retired soldier, transmigrates to the Late Ming.

He becomes a hundred-household officer in the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

The bad news: Beijing will fall in just over two months.

The good news: his adoptive father is Wang Cheng'en.

The ninth day of the first month, in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

Li Zicheng’s letter of challenge reaches the hands of the Ming Emperor, Chongzhen.

A workaholic to the end, Chongzhen immediately summons his civil and military officials and calls on them to donate money to defend the capital.

In the Hall of Supreme Harmony, more than half the officials do nothing and contribute not a single coin.

Chongzhen is so furious he wants to curse them all.

Wang Cheng'en: “Your Majesty... There is a way to raise money! My adopted son, Song Lin, can find the funds for the army!”

Chongzhen: “?”

At the time, military funds are what Chongzhen needs most. The treasury is empty, while the officials and nobles are loaded with wealth.

He neither dares nor has the power to go after them.

What he needs most is someone willing to act on the emperor’s behalf, unafraid to bear the blame for generations to come.

And Song Lin knows a thing or two about making money.

“You won’t pay? How about a taste of the Northern Garrison’s prison?”

After a series of maneuvers, Song Lin rises to the highest ranks and becomes richer than a nation.

Chongzhen grips Song Lin’s hands, full of hope: “Beloved subject Song, I need silver to drive back the Qing army...”

“Your Majesty, would a hundred million taels be enough?”

Tears fill Chongzhen’s eyes, and his hands tremble without stopping.

After the Ming is revived,

being an emperor is a high-risk job. Even a dog wouldn’t take it.

With a beauty in each arm, Song Lin lives life as he pleases...