The First-Rank Chief Minister

That year, Chen Feng realized he had become the son of a noble family.

Wealth and splendor already paved the road ahead of him, and he had planned out how to live carefree once he turned eighteen.

But when he woke from his sleep, war had already swallowed up all that wealth and splendor.

He became a member of an anti-government organization, a rebel in the eyes of the court.

That year, the new emperor of the Dazhao Dynasty ascended the throne, intent on stripping the vassal princes of their power.

Chen Feng, who had escaped the flames of war, instead became a retainer to a vassal prince.

Hoping to live under an ordinary identity, Chen Feng went to Qingxi and became a low-ranking county magistrate.

Then the deputy magistrate died, the county magistrate resigned, the prefect rebelled, and even the Grand Secretariat's chief minister died of illness.

Chen Feng: "I never wanted a promotion. But after enough people died, I got promoted anyway."