My name is Tinghua, the unlucky third son of the Zhengbai Banner coat and collar family in the Qing Dynasty. My father doesn't care for my mother, my eldest brother is a third-class imperial guard, my second brother is an editor at the Hanlin Academy, and I'm in my late twenties, still hanging around in the Imperial College, and am laughed at by my classmates as "an old boy" every day.
I originally wanted to live like this for the rest of my life, but unexpectedly, Mr. Kangxi paid a private visit incognito and saw me squatting in the corner eating sesame seed cakes, calling my boss a "bald donkey", and even solved a serial theft case. The old man thought that I was "very wise but foolish", so he just threw me into a seventh-level county magistrate and asked me to go to the south of the Yangtze River to control floods, pacify salt lords, and fight corrupt officials.
How can I know this? You can only rely on a bad mouth to deceive, pretend to be scary, and add a little scheming. As a result, he was promoted from the county magistrate to the governor, and from the governor to the military department, and finally got involved with Jiuzi's son-in-law.
I swear, I really don't want to be a powerful minister. I just want to make some money safely, get a wife, and raise a dog. But those elder brothers, ministers, and relatives all insisted on sending me to Qingyun - so I had no choice but to accept it with a smile, which made them all cry.
No system, no golden fingers, only a modern soul (I came from time travel) plus Qing Dynasty evil theory. The whole process is written in the first person, with lots of laughs and constant twists and turns. See how Tinghua turned from a salted fish to the number one "Smiling Tiger" in the Qing Dynasty!
