You Told Me to Manage a Pigsty, Not Become County Magistrate!

[Genre: high-level officialdom] + [Theme: the art of governing] + [Character: calculating + hands-on] + [Style: play the pig to eat the tiger] + [Twist: the poorest places offer the richest pickings]

In their circles, everyone knew that Ye Fan, the only heir of the old Ye family, was a hopeless case. He’d turned down a smooth path to success, only for his grandfather to kick him off to a poverty-stricken backwater where even the birds wouldn’t go, to work as a “pig keeper,” a technician at a livestock station. Everyone waited for him to become a laughingstock, expecting him to come running back to the capital in tears. Instead, Ye Fan was grinning in the pigsty. Where others saw barren hills and poor soil, he saw an undeveloped green treasure trove. Where others looked down on the uncouth country folk, he saw the strength of their honest hearts. Using business ideas far ahead of their time, he turned pig farming into an industry chain famous throughout the province. He also traded on his father’s influence, but used it to help the locals get rich and attract investment. While his former classmates were still fighting tooth and nail over minor official posts, Ye Fan had already earned the title of county magistrate through his stunning achievements in pig farming, leaving everyone who had mocked him dumbfounded.