[One sentence introduction]
The owner of a bankrupt factory held a secret edict from the emperor, forcing all civil and military officials in the court to kneel and shout "It smells so good".
Story summary
Shen Yi, a modern financial elite, accidentally traveled through the Ming Dynasty and became a low-end stall owner in Dongchang who was about to have his house confiscated and beheaded. At the beginning, there was an empty government office, three leaky public houses, fifty factory guards who had no enough to eat, and one hundred and twenty corrupt officials sent by the Ministry of Punishment to be tried - no money or food. If he did not recover two million taels of corrupt money within three months, he would have to take the blame for these corrupt officials and die.
What's even more fatal is that Shen Yi accidentally discovered that the last governor of Dongchang was exterminated because he found an "outside account" - a shocking secret involving the palm prints of the imperial master, the chief ceremonial supervisor, and three cabinet bachelors. Now, the clues to this account book are hidden among the corrupt officials he took over. The enemy has laid a dragnet, ostensibly to let him pursue the stolen goods, but in fact it is to let him "find nothing to investigate and die without any evidence."
Shen Yi had no way out. He used modern financial means to count assets, designed a "debt-for-equity swap" plan, pioneered "corruption asset securitization", and turned a group of corrupt officials who cried for their fathers into "re-education through labor partners" who made money for him. While the entire court was waiting to see his body and body, he walked into the Imperial Study Room holding a "white list of corrupt officials for reform" - followed by the Minister of Justice and the Doctor of Household who had just been "incited to rebel" by him, as well as a list of infiltration by foreign enemies that could make the emperor grow old overnight.
He doesn't know martial arts or strategizing, but he understands one thing: in the Ming Dynasty, there were no permanent friends and enemies, only permanent reorganization of interests.
