You Were Supposed to Be an Upright Official, So Why Are You Splitting the Profits with the Emperor 70-30?

As soon as Lin Xuan transmigrated to the Great Jing Dynasty, he found himself in a hellish situation: though he was the Vice Minister of Revenue, every official had jointly impeached him for bribery and corruption, and his entire family was about to be executed! At the brink of life and death, the max-level office-politics skills he’d honed in his previous life awakened. Lin Xuan slapped his thigh. “This isn’t a court, it’s a corporation!” Facing a trial by the Three Judicial Offices, Lin Xuan pulled out a classified ledger in open court. “I did take bribes, but I used one tenth to grease the wheels, two tenths to feed my family, and the remaining seven tenths all went into Your Majesty’s private treasury! Your Majesty, I’m innocent!” The assembled officials were dumbfounded, and even the emperor on the dragon throne twitched at the corners of his mouth. From then on, the Great Hua Dynasty had a notorious official who was publicly known as the most corrupt man in the land, but secretly served as the emperor’s fixer. The incorruptible officials impeached him every day, and the great clans wanted to eat him alive. Yet through “managing upward” and “blaming others in every conceivable way,” he rose through the ranks and amassed a fortune, ruining his political enemies along the way. Until one day, the Great Hua treasury ran dry, and foreign invaders reached the border. The emperor looked distraught. “My dear minister, my realm is doomed.” Lin Xuan smiled. “Don’t panic, Boss. I just emptied the enemy emperor’s treasury!”