Great Ming: After Three Years as a County Magistrate, Butcher Zhu Wants Me to Be a Corrupt Official

[Transmigration + county magistrate + Ming Dynasty + farming + corrupt official]

After transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty, Lin Mo spent three years turning impoverished Pei County into the finest county in the empire. People scrambled to register as residents, and landing a job as a yamen runner there was considered a blessing from the ancestors.

One day, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to his ancestral home for a discreet inspection.

“Even the Heavenly King himself has to pay to enter the city? What a rotten official. He deserves to die!”

“This county office is more luxurious than my own palace? Just how much of the people’s hard-earned wealth did he embezzle? This is infuriating! I’m going to have him beheaded!”

But then!

Empress Ma: “Chongba, working with Magistrate Lin this time earned us a hundred thousand taels!”

Zhu Biao: “Father, I plan to make Magistrate Lin my chief grand secretary!”

Zhu Di: “Father, Magistrate Lin doesn’t even consider you the emperor. He has to be sent away. I suggest sending him to Yan…”