I Build a Nation in a Time of Chaos!

Chen Ji woke up in a mass grave, where the stench of corpses smelled sweet.

As starving people ate their own children, he used scraps of memories from his previous life to build a curved-shaft plow. A landlord seized his invention, then sent men to hunt him down.

While fleeing, he stumbled upon a secret treasury from a former dynasty. Relying on the fragments of historical knowledge he retained, he scraped into the military examinations at the very bottom of the list.

At the border, he improved the Han dynasty’s field-rotation method, turning barren land fertile.

When enemy cavalry invaded, Chen Ji took apart the remains of firearms from the former dynasty and built a three-barreled hand cannon.

As the military governor knelt and begged to surrender, he gently brushed the woodcutter’s knife at his waist.

“This realm needs a new way of doing things.”