The Great Ming Granary: Diverting Yongle's Disaster Relief Grain from the Start

Chen Mo is reborn in the early years of the Yongle reign, amid a devastating famine in the north. Linhuang County is strewn with corpses, and after offending his superior with his blunt honesty, he is framed for embezzling disaster relief grain and sentenced to death. Fragments of memory reveal that corrupt officials and merchants colluded to intercept and sell the relief grain. Drawing on his past life's agricultural knowledge and the System's initial activation, Chen Mo exploits the county deputy's remaining influence and the starving refugees' desperate hunger to devise a meticulous scheme to rob the robbers. He cleverly pins the blame on bandits or rival factions. Using the recovered grain to temporarily calm the people, he gathers his first core group of refugees and repairs and expands the county granary. With grain as his weapon, bargaining chip, and lifeline, he shifts the balance of power and reshapes the region beneath the splendor and shadows of the Yongle era, ultimately changing the fate of the empire.