Great Ming: The Corrupt County Magistrate Who Shocked Old Zhu

After transmigrating to the Great Ming and becoming a county magistrate, Zhao Xing had suffered enough from poverty. He spent three years developing the county, and silver poured in nonstop. How could the Great Ming fail to prosper?

A memorial read: “Your Majesty, the people of Fengyang have ragged clothes and empty stomachs. Bandits roam unchecked, and the people are fleeing...”

Then one day, Zhu Yuanzhang came to Fengyang in person.

Zhu Yuanzhang: “What? The whole realm belongs to me, and I still have to pay a toll? Wait, why are Fengyang’s walls taller and sturdier than those of Yingtian Prefecture? There’s so much grain in Fengyang that even ten new granaries can’t hold it all? It costs five hundred taels of silver just to meet Magistrate Zhao? I’m going to have him skinned, stuffed with straw, and hung on the city wall!”

...And yet...

Zhu Yuanzhang: “This is actually pretty good.”