[Farming + Lighthearted + Transmigration + Political Intrigue]
Shen Chang'an transmigrates to the second year of the Zhengde era in the Ming Dynasty and becomes the dirt-poor county magistrate of Yongning County in Jiangnan.
On his first day in office, the county yamen's roof leaks, the treasury holds only three taels of silver, and there are fewer than ten constables in all.
He sighs. Fine, when in Rome. First, he'd better build a toilet.
Improved farm tools, dredged waterways, cement, soap... One by one, these little inventions quietly transform Yongning.
He only wanted a quiet life as an unambitious official, but...
Emperor Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao, travels incognito through Yongning and is left dumbfounded by a flush toilet.
Liu Jin's adopted son, hoping to seize Yongning's lucrative post, comes to take power.
Prince Ning, Zhu Chenhao, secretly tries to win him over with promises of wealth and rank.
Wang Yangming passes through to lecture, then talks with him through the night and sighs, “This man's talent is no less than that of the School of Mind.”
Shen Chang'an smiles wryly. I really only wanted to be an idle official!
Watch as a county magistrate who wants no part in the rat race uses “winning by not competing” to rewrite the fate of the Ming Dynasty, step by step, amid the raging storms of the Zhengde era!
