Republican Era: Inheriting Beiyang, I Fight for Supremacy in a Warlord-Torn Land

Others transmigrate to the Republic of China era to train troops and seize territory.

Yuan Kewen transmigrates as the second young master of the Beiyang family, but from the start, he is a universally acknowledged failure: he knows poetry, lyrics, music, and painting inside out, but is hopeless at military and political power. Even his father, Yuan Shikai, shakes his head at him.

A high fever changes what is inside him. A staff officer from a military academy in his previous life, he now intends to become the player who controls the whole board.

First, he abandons literature for the military and builds a newly organized division from scratch. Others laugh at his wild ambition, but he brings out modern military training methods, equipping his infantry squads with firepower to rival the Japanese divisions. Second, when military funds run short, he goes straight to the German embassy, trading the French people's top-secret artillery technology for an entire division's worth of German weapons, plus an arsenal. Third, as chaos descends and warlords clash, he boldly enters the fray with this army armed to the teeth.

"A division commander at twenty-one? Absurd!"

"Absurd?" Yuan Kewen wipes down his gun and smiles. "Wait until I reach that position, then you can judge me."

From discarded son of Beiyang to warlord of a chaotic age, he will take charge of this shattered land.

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