I Told You to Replace Rice with Mulberries, and You Made Jiajing Furious!
Xia Ren travels through time to the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty. Just after becoming the Deputy Minister of Works, he is dispatched to Zhejiang to repair river embankments. He is supposed to help the Yan faction amass wealth, but unexpectedly becomes bound to a Virtue System. To stay alive, he turns around and spends all three million taels of silver on the people, introducing a fish-rice-mulberry integrated farming system and miraculously reviving Zhejiang's desperate situation. However, schemes come one after another: replacing rice paddies with mulberry fields, destroying embankments to frame him, cutting off food supplies to force farmers to surrender their land, and using beauty traps. Caught between the Yan faction, the upright officials, the Imperial Textile Bureau, and corrupt local officials, Xia Ren navigates the treacherous political waters. With Hai Rui investigating cases and Hu Zongxian and Qi Jiguang as his allies, he gradually exposes the corruption behind Zhejiang's political establishment. In the end, he not only saves the common people but also makes Yan Shifan suffer the consequences of his own schemes. Amid the chaos of officialdom, he carves out an unconventional path to promotion: never amassing wealth, only accumulating virtue.
Main characters: Xia Ren, Li Xuan
Supporting characters: Ma Ningyuan, Yan Shifan, Jiajing, Hai Rui, Hu Zongxian, Qi Jiguang
Also known as: 让你改稻为桑，你把嘉靖气懵了！
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Xia Ren merentas masa ke zaman Maharaja Jiajing dari Dinasti Ming. Baru sahaja dilantik sebagai Timbalan Menteri Kerja Raya, dia terus dihantar ke Zhejiang…
Xia Ren merentas masa ke zaman Maharaja Jiajing dari Dinasti Ming. Baru sahaja dilantik sebagai Timbalan Menteri Kerja Raya, dia terus dihantar ke Zhejiang untuk membaiki benteng sungai. Sepatutnya dia membantu puak Yan mengumpulkan kekayaan, tetapi secara tidak disangka-sangka dia terikat dengan Sistem Pahala Kebajikan. Demi menyelamatkan nyawanya, dia menggunakan kesemua tiga juta tael perak untuk rakyat, lalu memperkenalkan sistem penternakan ikan dan penanaman padi serta mulberi secara bersepadu. Usahanya berjaya menghidupkan semula Zhejiang yang berada dalam keadaan terdesak. Namun, pelbagai komplot muncul berturut-turut: menukar sawah padi kepada ladang mulberi, meruntuhkan benteng untuk memerangkapnya, memutuskan bekalan makanan bagi memaksa petani menyerahkan tanah, serta menggunakan perangkap kecantikan. Xia Ren perlu bergerak cermat antara puak Yan, golongan pegawai berintegriti, Biro Tenunan Diraja dan pegawai tempatan yang korup. Dengan memanfaatkan siasatan kes oleh Hai Rui serta bekerjasama dengan Hu Zongxian dan Qi Jiguang, dia sedikit demi sedikit membongkar skandal rasuah di Zhejiang. Akhirnya, bukan sahaja rakyat berjaya diselamatkannya, malah Yan Shifan turut menerima akibat daripada perbuatannya sendiri. Dalam dunia pentadbiran yang bergolak, dia menempa jalan kenaikan pangkat yang berbeza: tidak mengumpul kekayaan, sebaliknya mengumpul kebajikan.
让你改稻为桑，你把嘉靖气懵了！ · I Told You to Replace Rice with Mulberries, and You Made Jiajing Furious!