Exiled to the Frontier from the Start, I Lay Low and Become an Emperor for the Ages

From the start, he was stripped of his title, exiled to the frontier, and given a dilapidated city with fewer than three hundred people and an empty treasury. To top it off, he was saddled with a frail body that wouldn't survive the winter!

This was Shen Baizhou's fief: Yunzhou.

But to him, this barren wasteland was a supreme treasure trove containing the foundations of an entire industrial civilization!

[Resource Exploration]→ Discover vast coal and iron deposits in Heishishan, and ignite the flames of the Industrial Revolution!

[Agricultural Reform]→ Curved-beam plows plus greenhouse farming, boosting grain yields by 300%!

[Urban Development]→ Paved roads → glass skyscrapers → centralized heating, turning a bitterly cold land into a paradise north of the frontier!

[Military Revolution]→ Steel-armed repeating crossbows → breech-loading cannons → bastion defenses, bringing the age of cold weapons to an end!

[Economic Colonization]→ The Yunzhou Daily → luxury goods dumping → financial control, crushing the century-old foundations of the Jiangnan gentry with money!

When the world saw the "Yunzhou New Army," fully armed with firearms and supplied with provisions scheduled to the hour, the entire continent of Shenzhou fell silent.

The capital's emperor's spies reported: "Your Majesty, Yunzhou is no longer a realm fit for a subject. Its walls are impregnable, its people live in immortal-like abundance, and its army... is divine retribution!"

Standing atop a blast furnace and gazing down at the industrial empire he had built with his own hands, Shen Baizhou spoke calmly:

"I am the rules."