Reborn in the Great Ming as a Traitor 2: Rising Through the Ranks

[This novel has no System, no harem, and no wild flights of fancy. It is simply a work of historical fiction.]

It tells of a suspicious emperor, a treacherous and turbulent court, upright officials watching like tigers, and a sea of bureaucracy beset by rising storms, where one wrong step means ruin beyond redemption. This is the story of how Yan Shaoqing, born into the Yan clan, finds a way forward and grows among the many remarkable talents of the Ming Dynasty.

Modern office worker Lin Jinglan falls into the water while trying to save someone. When he opens his eyes, he has transmigrated to the thirty-fourth year of the Jiajing reign and become the grandson of Yan Song, a man whose power dominates the court. His previous life was ordinary, but this one has plunged him into the Ming Dynasty’s most perilous struggle for power.

He has now spent three years navigating officialdom, rising from a complete novice to Director of the Zhejiang Office of the Ministry of Revenue and concurrently Director of the Office of Timber and Crafts at the Ministry of Works.

This book continues the first novel, Reborn as a Corrupt Official in the Ming Dynasty. The next story begins in the thirty-seventh year of the Jiajing reign, when he joins Zhang Juzheng in heading south of the Yangtze to inspect farmland and implement the performance evaluation system.