Bringing an Empire System to the End of the Ming Dynasty

When modern office drone Li Ming was tapping away at his Age of Empires keyboard in his rented room, a sudden bolt of lightning hurled him into the chaotic world of the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign. Rebel forces ravaged the land ahead, the Qing army was invading from behind, and the earth beneath his feet was strewn with corpses from starvation. He had no way to protect himself, until a familiar System notification sounded in his mind.

Empire System binding successful. New player package: 5 villagers, 1 water source.

From the City God Temple in Fei County to a makeshift camp in the wilderness, from struggling for a mouthful of food to using System resources to build a force, Li Ming brings the construction, production, and combat strategies of the game world to the dying days of the Ming, where human lives are worth less than grass. Against all odds, he carves out a path to survival.

He uses food produced by the System to aid refugees, builds fortresses with plans far ahead of their time, and manufactures weapons with assembly-line efficiency. Facing greedy officials and gentry, brutal rebels, and the Qing army watching like a tiger, he applies a game player's coolheadedness and decisiveness, gradually engraving the laws of a virtual empire into this suffering land.

Will he drift with the tide and become another speck of dust in the chaos, or use the System to rewrite the upheaval of the Jia Shen year? See how Li Ming uses the Empire System

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.