Red-Top Tycoon: The City Calls Me Saint Xu!

Overworked to death by modern corporate exploitation, Xu Sanchuan wakes up as a petty frontier merchant in the Great Li Dynasty—and a condemned traitor facing imminent execution for smuggling military salt. Fortunately, he awakens with a divine appraisal eye capable of instantly determining the exact silver value of any worldly commodity. Armed with this cheat code, he cheats death right under a fierce general's blade and takes on the frontier army's ultimate nightmare: a warehouse of moldy grain and the daunting task of raising a month's military pay for the entire camp in just three days. From that moment on, Xu specializes in ventures others dare not touch. During a famine, instead of dispensing charity gruel, he aggressively drives up grain prices to lure merchants from all directions to the frontier. When starving refugees besieging the city walls demand handouts, he offers no free meals—only hard labor. Though every move looks like ruthless opportunism, the staggering results speak for themselves: grain prices plummet, soldiers receive their pay, and refugees survive. Driven purely by a relentless obsession with silver, he unwittingly earns the adoration of the entire populace, who erect longevity shrines in his honor and hail him as "Saint Xu." Trading silver for trust and trust for official credentials, Xu climbs the ranks until the coveted "red-top" official hat rests upon his head, leaving everyone to forget the desperate prisoner who once knelt beneath the executioner's blade. When asked why he persists in doing so much "good," Xu gives the only three answers that matter: "Make money!" "Make money!" "And make damn well more money!"