Great Ming: I Told You to Enlist, So Why Did You Open a Brothel to Fund the Army?

[Multiple Female Leads] [In the Name of the People] [Power Struggles in a Time of Chaos] [Political Intrigue] [The Protagonist Is No Good Guy]

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, a severe drought strikes. Lin Beiwang, hungry for three days, stares at an official notice with gleaming eyes.

Three taels of silver for enlisting, plus a refugee wife assigned to you?

"What the hell, they give you a wife and pay you too? You'd have to be an idiot not to take that deal!"

He signs up first and takes a widowed mother and her child with him, only to find himself in a military outpost straight from hell from the start.

The officer steals the troops' pay? He beats him up in a sack at night, then helps himself to the money and collects monthly protection fees!

Old soldiers try to extort him? He lies flat and pretends to have seizures, then turns the tables and cons them out of two taels of silver!

Bandits plan to massacre a village? No way is he fighting them head-on. He slips purgative beans into their water at night, then wipes them out with a fire attack using manure!

While others transmigrate to save the Ming, Lin Beiwang transmigrates and opens a crooked gambling den in the army, builds a brothel business, and wages war to fund more war!

He takes down superiors, wipes out bandits, and fights the Manchus.

With his utterly shameless streetwise dark arts, he turns a band of hooligans into the most powerful warlord force at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

But when a hundred thousand Qing cavalry arrive at the city gates, this underworld thug who usually cares only about money draws his blade:

"Good grief, you really think I'm afraid to kill people?"