Transmigrate to the End of the Ming Dynasty: From the Start, I Take Over a Broken County

Lu Zhao wakes up to find that he has transmigrated to the seventh year of the Tianqi era and become a lowly grain-office clerk in Yanchuan County, Great Ming. From the start, refugees are besieging the city, three thousand shi of government grain have vanished, and he is the perfect person to take the blame. The good news: he knows Great Ming will not fall for another seventeen years. The bad news: at this rate, he might not survive another seventeen days. To stay alive, Lu Zhao has no choice but to investigate the granaries, rescue disaster victims, train local militias, promote trade routes, and reclaim farmland. But as he goes about it, he suddenly realizes that the county town under his control is growing larger, its population is rising, and its army is growing stronger. By the time the powerful contenders across the land come to their senses, the once insignificant clerk is already standing at the center of the great game of the realm