After traveling through time and becoming a steward in Heshen's house, Li Yan just wanted to survive.
Unexpectedly, an "accidental" fire disaster involving three thousand taels pushed him to the forefront. While everyone was waiting to see his scapegoat beheaded, Li Yan presented a copy of the doubtful accounts and attached a "Nancheng Industrial Profit Doubling Plan".
What he brings is not poetry and poetry, but KPI assessment, double-entry accounting, and risk hedging—a set of modern management black technologies that reduce dimensionality and attack.
He Shen smiled: "It's interesting. There is a shortage of someone in my study who can write such a prescription."
From then on, Li Yan became the most corrupt and most trusted "steward" in the Qing Dynasty, and also became the ultimate tightrope player between Qianlong, Heshen, Jiaqing, the Incorruptible Officials Party, and Western envoys.
He helped Heshen make money, but secretly left all evidence of his crimes; he helped Heshen gain power, but secretly planned a way out to save his life. When Qianlong died and the thunder was approaching, everyone thought that he would definitely die——
But Li Yan stood at the center of the storm and became the only one who had the last laugh.
"I am neither a loyal minister nor a treacherous minister. I am just a project manager who treats time travel as project management."
One sentence highlights:
I used modern management techniques to send He Shen into the abyss and myself into the blue sky.
