With eighty-three yuan in his pocket and twenty-three thousand yuan of family debt on his shoulders, twenty-year-old Lin Zi'an steps off a bus in a small county town in the north.
He has no System and no cheat abilities. The only thing he has is a natural imperial filter in his mind, impervious to all attacks.
To everyone else, he's a broke man with nowhere left to turn, scraping by at the bottom. To Lin Zi'an, he's an emperor traveling incognito, laying the foundations for his reign!
Rummaging through roadside trash cans? "This is the collection of taxes from mountains and marshes, to fill the imperial treasury."
Buying and reselling broken appliances at a secondhand market? "Gut the washing machine and extract its copper. This is how one refines the finest metal to protect the nation."
Unemployed young men with dyed blond hair fight over turf on the street? He pays out of pocket for eight sets of heavy-duty camouflage coats and reflective vests, and immediately organizes them into the "Tiger-Bold Patrol Guards"!
A rickety handcart is his imperial carriage, a leaky warehouse his palace, and a twenty-year-old hydraulic baler is an "Artifact of the Founding" by imperial decree.
When street thugs show up with steel pipes to wreck his place, he uses a set of environmental inspection regulations to bamboozle the local kingpin and recruit him as an advance guard. When his snobbish cousin produces a loan note to demand repayment, he slaps down five thousand in cash, crushes a liquor bottle with one hand, and walks away. When a capital tycoon from the provincial city offers ten million to buy the whole business and tries to force him to sign a ten-year non-compete agreement and become a lackey, he smacks the table and sneers: "I'd rather rule among the common folk than serve as a slave to the great clans! The provincial capital is vast, and soon I shall claim it!"
From a beat-up three-wheeled cart to a fleet of vehicles roaring north and south through an industrial park spanning a hundred mu: in this life, watch as I tread on a sea of empty bottles, shatter the heavens once more, and unite the realm!
It's so funny, hahaha, the protagonist is so mean