[Entirely Hand-Typed + Funny + Not Mindless + Constant Twists + A Harem]
Zhang Jianhai transmigrates to the thirty-ninth year of the Jiajing reign, 1560, and becomes a low-ranking county deputy in Yancheng County.
Unable to read, he mistakes the magistrate's order to "release the prisoner immediately" for "execute the prisoner immediately" and kills salt smugglers sent by Yan Maoqing to buy illegal salt at a low price. By a twist of fate, he earns Yan Maoqing's favor and becomes one of the Yan faction.
Afraid that people will discover he is illiterate, Zhang Jianhai is careful at every turn. He only wants to be a minor county deputy, stay on his own little patch of land, and marry a few pretty wives. But through one unlikely coincidence after another, his blunders keep turning out brilliantly, and he rises higher and higher in the ranks.
He appears to be part of the Yan faction, but in truth, he keeps sabotaging the Yan family and changing the fate of the Great Ming.
Two years later, Zhang Jianhai sits in the Grand Minister's chair at Wanshou Palace, while the Jiajing Emperor occupies the Dragon Throne. Yan Song, Xu Jie, Yan Shifan, and the others kneel inside the palace.
Yan Song: "Your Majesty, Grand Minister Zhang, every mistake was Yan Shifan's fault. Why not execute Yan Shifan and exterminate his entire clan?"
Zhang Jianhai: "Grand Secretary Yan's proposal is approved!"
Jiajing: "I second that!"
Yan Song: "What?!"
