Exiled to the Frontier? No Problem, I'll Build an Empire Instead

Chu Xiao wakes up to discover that he has transmigrated into the body of the Great Xia Dynasty’s eldest prince.

But before he can enjoy his riches and honor, the emperor dies, the imperial edict is altered, and the sinister second prince joins forces with a powerful eunuch to frame him. The rightful heir to the throne is banished to Beijiang Pass, a bitterly cold frontier in the north.

There are barely a hundred elderly and wounded soldiers there. The walls are crumbling, bandits run rampant, and the Xiongnu raid every year. It is a hopeless place, a land of certain death.

The second prince, Chu Hui, puts on a show of benevolence, claiming he is “sending his elder brother to gain experience,” when in truth he wants to use someone else to kill him and leave him dead on the frontier.

But Chu Xiao is not worried in the slightest. In fact, he is ecstatic! The moment he left the capital, he awakened an incredible System: a cross-era marketplace! Food? Buy it! Weapons? Buy them! Modern steelmaking technology? Buy it! German-style division equipment? Buy it! Tanks and cannons? Buy them all!

And so, under Chu Xiao’s management, Beijiang Pass, this frozen wasteland where not even birds would defecate, becomes an iron fortress in just one year!

Trade flourishes, the people grow prosperous, and the army becomes elite. Even when the Xiongnu cavalry invades, machine guns and cannons blast them into questioning their lives!

The second prince thinks Chu Xiao is as good as dead. Instead, the reports that reach him are:

“Urgent report! A great victory at Beijiang Pass! His Highness the Eldest Prince has wiped out thirty thousand Xiongnu cavalry!”

“Urgent report! Beijiang’s tax revenue is three times that of Jiangnan!”

“Urgent report! His Highness the Eldest Prince… has proclaimed himself emperor?!”