The Late Han: Starting as a Village Clerk

Auditor Zhao Guoqiang transmigrated to the late Eastern Han Dynasty, becoming an unranked village headman in Shouzhang County. Upon transmigrating, he discovered: the original owner didn't slip and fall into the water; he was pushed into the river to silence him. Why? While auditing the accounts, he found that the county's tax grain didn't add up. Three hundred and thirty shi of grain had vanished into thin air, hauled by carriage at midnight to the grain shop in the east of the city—and the people receiving the grain wore Yellow Turbans. The Yellow Turban Rebellion would break out in half a month. Others transmigrate to the Three Kingdoms, making gunpowder, training elite soldiers, seizing territory, and fighting for the realm. Zhao Guoqiang knows no martial arts and cannot smelt iron; he only knows how to audit accounts. But in this chaotic era, auditing accounts is the toughest skill of all. Starting from a lowly village headman, he counts chimneys to verify households, investigates hidden fields to clear black accounts, cuts off the Yellow Turbans' grain supply lines, and rectifies the military farming grain routes. He calculates everyone's grain clearly and exposes anyone's false accounts. When Cao Cao faced a grain shortage at Guandu, he sought him out. When Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition faced a grain cutoff, he still sought him out. He doesn't want to be Cao Cao, nor Liu Bei. He just wants to be the one—no matter who fights for the realm, they must respectfully come to his door and say: "Grand Minister of Agriculture Zhao, may we borrow some grain?" — This is the story of a minor official who, relying on an account book, became the lifeline of the realm in a chaotic era. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Late Han: Starting as a Village Clerk — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠