A modern soul transmigrates into the chaos of the late Ming dynasty, builds an army with a System, rallies refugees, and ultimately becomes ruler of all under heaven!
Modern young man Chen Mo unexpectedly transmigrates into the chaos of the late Ming dynasty, taking over the body of Chen Sanshui, a down-and-out scholar dragged along by bandits. At death's door, he awakens the [Warlord of Chaos System] and obtains a fine steel saber and emergency rations far ahead of their time. In this hell where people devour one another, he befriends Zhao Sheng, a deserter from the frontier army. Using the System's supplies and his knowledge of the future, he quietly slips away from the bandits' camp.
Making an abandoned patrol office his base, Chen Mo gathers scattered soldiers and refugees. He improves farming tools and manufactures gunpowder, winning people's loyalty with a “fair distribution of grain” and distinguishing his forces from other bandits with a “three prohibitions on killing” policy.
Hong Chengchou sees him as a minor nuisance. Li Zicheng calls him a hypocritical scholar, while Zhang Xianzhong mocks him for being softhearted. But by the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign, when the rebel king is defeated in Beijing and Qing cavalry pours through the passes, this quiet army already controls the key routes through Sichuan and Shaanxi. Ranks of flintlock rifles roll across the Central Plains, and red cannon blast open Shanhai Pass. Meanwhile, in the command tent, Chen Mo sits with a steel pen in hand, reviewing a memorial on the Equal Land Decree...
