My Sister-in-Law Lent Me Five Hundred Taels, So I Became a Brocade-Clad Guard

[Political Intrigue] [How a Sister-in-Law Became the Ming Dynasty’s Greatest Angel Investor] [The Corrupt Officials We Got Free Stuff From Back in the Day] [The Road from Junior Banner Officer to the Father of the Nine-Thousand-Year-Old] After transmigrating to another timeline in the Ming Dynasty, Ye Jing became the second son of a marquis’s family in the capital, a spoiled idler who was never favored. The dynasty was now in its declining years. Eunuchs had the young emperor under their sway, the Eastern Depot wielded enormous power, corruption was rife within the government, and the people lived in misery. Powerful enemies lurked beyond the borders, while the Age of Exploration was about to begin overseas. Fortunately, Ye Jing awakened a golden finger. After joining the Embroidered Uniform Guard, he rose through the ranks, eliminated his rivals, cracked down on corrupt officials, and led the Ming Dynasty to greater strength and glory. When cannon fire from the Portuguese echoed across the sea, Ye Jing boarded a treasure ship with his Embroidered Spring Saber in hand. “I’ll finish the battles Zheng He left unfinished, but let’s make one thing clear: the first five hundred taels of gold we seize are mine!” His goal was simple: reform pirates through the Great Ming Code, expand the Directorate of Ceremonial’s grave-side wailing business to Hokkaido, and send the Embroidered Uniform Guard’s prison KPIs soaring all the way to the Western Ocean!