[Tycoon-Style Nation-Building + Extreme Deadlines + Hilarious Misunderstandings + Dimensional Domination]
Lu Ming, a poor scholar who placed third in the imperial exams, offends the powerful and is exiled to govern Yunmeng County, the poorest county in all of Dayuan.
Just how poor is it? The county office leaks, the people gnaw on tree bark, and you can't find a single live chicken anywhere in the county.
Just as he's despairing, the [Spend Money to Strengthen the Nation System] descends from the heavens.
It gives him 100,000 taels of silver every day, and he has to spend it legally within the county before midnight!
If he can't spend it all? His lifespan gets deducted, and he drops dead on the spot!
Staring at a bowl of plain noodles that costs just two copper coins, Lu Ming's eyes turn red. “One hundred thousand taels is a hundred million copper coins! Even if all a thousand people in the county ate until their stomachs burst, we couldn't spend it all!”
To stay alive, Lu Ming goes completely berserk.
“Hiring! Every jobless drifter in the city, come work for me! I'll pay ten times the going rate and serve braised pork at every meal!”
“The county office is too run-down? Buy me the most expensive haunted house in the county, all thirty mu of it, in cash. We'll use it as our headquarters!”
“The local gangsters are holding up construction materials? Pay five times the rush shipping fee! I want every caravan in the land hauling goods to Yunmeng County!”
A few years later, an imperial envoy arrives with a secret order to investigate this “Dayuan's Number One Corrupt Official.” But seeing the magnificent city rising from the ground, its eight-lane concrete roads, and its million happy, prosperous residents, he is left speechless.
The emperor is stunned. “I sent you to be the magistrate of a poor county, and you paid cash to build an everlasting divine capital?!”
Lu Ming sighs at the sky. “Your Majesty, you just don't understand. If I don't spend all one hundred thousand taels in this miserable county, I'll really die tonight!”
