The Greediest County Magistrate in the Great Tang? Li Er Is Sick of Getting Played by Me

In the first year of the Zhenguan era, with the empire in need of rebuilding, Li Shimin went incognito to Taiping County. He expected a poor and desolate place, but what he saw nearly blinded him! Wide, level concrete roads, concrete fortresses ten zhang tall, heated homes warm enough to make you sweat in winter, and perfume mystery-box shops making a fortune every day... And most outrageously, one hotpot meal cost 800 taels of silver?! Li Er was furious. “How dare a mere seventh-rank nobody live more extravagantly than I do? This must be thoroughly investigated!” But when he saw the blueprints for the “heavy machine gun” and “ocean-crossing treasure ship” Xiao Jingyu had brought out, he immediately dropped to his knees. “Beloved Xiao, are you in need of a wife? What do you think of Changle? I'll give you the imperial treasury as her dowry!”