Reborn as a Down-and-Out Bailiff, I Brave a Chaotic World with a Little Child

Reincarnated as a penniless low-ranking officer in a chaotic age, starving and saddled with a few pitiful dependents who never get enough to eat, Lu Zheng only wants to keep his head down, farm, raise the children, and survive.

Corrupt officials and powerful clans hoard grain and prey on the people, regional warlords collude with foreign tribes to plunge the realm into chaos, and thousand-year-old aristocratic families manipulate the empire from behind the scenes. Ancient ferocious beasts and tribes from the frozen north take turns stirring up trouble. Every power in the land gangs up on him, a nobody from a humble family!

Fortunately, he uses his modern way of thinking to crush them with a superior understanding of the times: he employs criminal-investigation techniques to expose corrupt officials' crimes, introduces new policies to break the clans' monopoly on status, invents tactics to defeat the grassland cavalry, and turns rival factions against one another to reap the rewards.

The court wants to kill the donkey once the millstone is turned? He simply carves out a domain in the northern frontier and establishes a firm base. The aristocratic clans use a fake claim to legitimacy to manipulate the people? With the ancient cauldron of destiny in hand, he gets to decide who is legitimate!

As he sweeps away the old powers and brings the chaotic age to an end, he also raises the children he took in to be capable adults.

The thousand-year-old monsters are all left reeling: This guy doesn't play by the rules at all!