Great Tang: I Take Office as the Prefect of Jingzhou, and the Emperor Begs Me to Abuse My Power?

After waking from a nap, Chen Xingyun found himself appointed magistrate of the Capital Prefecture. Above him were imperial relatives of every kind and powerful ministers who ran the court. Below him were all manner of ruffians and gangsters, with troublemakers filling the streets.

As magistrate of the Capital Prefecture, he was caught in the middle, a punching bag for everyone.

But those who want money fear those who don't care about their lives, and those who don't care about their lives fear the truly ruthless.

Thankfully, Heaven had blessed Chen Xingyun with a Justice System after he transmigrated. By punishing evildoers and cracking down on crime, he could earn all kinds of rewards from the System.

Whether they were nobles in the imperial palace or street thugs, everyone trembled before Chen Xingyun.

Until Chen Xingyun arrested Empress Zhang's nephew. The empress's brother-in-law went straight to the throne hall and accused Chen Xingyun of torturing a confession out of him and fabricating a major miscarriage of justice.

Emperor Suzong of Tang, Li Heng, was furious, believing that the empress's brother-in-law was trying to harm his capable official.

So he ordered the eunuch by his side to...

Nobody expected that Chen Xingyun would neither skim money nor fabricate cases, but instead put every prisoner to work in the fields!

He called it a grand reform program!