Li Siqi, the head of the Household Department of Chang'an City, fished at work and drank after get off work, so he was nicknamed "waste wood."
The emperor suddenly came up with the idea of conducting a "Grade Assessment of Hundred Officials". Each person would receive a military order, complete the promotion, and get out if he failed. Others were asked to inventory granaries and repair rivers. Li Siqi was given a "kindly" message - "Within three months, the revenue of the national treasury tripled."
All civil and military officials in the court were waiting for him to pack up and leave. Li Siqi looked at the KPI and was silent for a long time: "Then can I recruit a few people first?"
He recruited: an exiled businessman, a retired madam, an accountant who miscalculated and was demoted, and a painter who could only draw erotic pictures.
Everyone thought he was crazy. Until he came up with an unheard-of "performance appraisal method" that turned the treasury accounts upside down. Chasing taxes, clearing accounts, reviving dead money, and being a waste of money...
