In the Year of Famine, I Become Emperor by Scavenging!

Ye Wuming, a lowborn, is reborn in a famine year and discovers that the earthenware basin left behind by his mother can be used to trade for modern-day trash! Gutter oil? High-salt, greasy food! Glass beads? Exquisite glazed jewels! Who renovates a house and fails to sort the waste, tossing rebar out with the rest? What kind of person hides a handgun in a garbage bag? Who throws away a copy of The Collected Works on Ideological Reform without reading it? And who hid the Imperial Seal in my refrigerator? My name is Ye Wuming. I’m a nobody who trades trash during a famine. I really don’t want to start a rebellion and become emperor!