Late Ming: After Ten Years as a Landed Millionaire, I’m Done Hiding

Li Wushan transmigrated to the late Ming Dynasty and spent the first ten years lying flat as a landlord. While other transmigrators stirred up the world, his greatest achievement was treating his poor neighbors to a meal of meat at his birthday banquet every year. It wasn’t until a gang of little beggars snatched the meat, smashed the stove, and set the place on fire in front of hundreds of his guests that he realized how rotten the world had become. Poor scholars fleeing for their lives around the courtyard, beggars too hungry to stand, and a little ingrate who took a bowl of cabbage as payment before escaping over the wall that very night. In the final years of the Ming Dynasty, everyone was starving. He touched the sixth-rank military appointment certificate he had bought at great expense and suddenly thought that maybe this empty title could be made real. Step one: Open the granary. Step two: Raise an army.