I Have the Numbers on My Side in the Late Ming Dynasty

Modern young man Zhao Feng is struck by lightning while playing an empire-building game and transmigrates into the body of a landlord’s son in late Ming Shanxi, whose family has been destroyed. Faced with natural disasters, human calamities, and bandits running rampant, he unexpectedly binds himself to the game’s “Empire System.” It lets him summon peasants, train soldiers, and build facilities, setting him on a journey to survive against all odds.

From the start, he has only a dilapidated old house and a few hundred mu of dry fields. He relies on the System’s peasants, who can farm regardless of natural disasters, to secure food and clothing. He trades grain for more people and expands his power; trains soldiers to wipe out bandits and secures his territory with an iron fist. He also understands the importance of balanced development: while accumulating resources and reclaiming wasteland, he bribes officials and wins over the people, expanding his influence from the countryside into nearby towns.

From a lone man to a force of thousands of peasants and soldiers, from struggling to survive in an old house to controlling a territory and sheltering countless civilians, Zhao Feng uses the hard truth that strength lies in numbers to build a safe haven amid the chaos of the late Ming. But the challenges never stop. The ambitions of government troops, the threat of rebel armies, and even greater natural and human disasters follow one after another. Can he use the System and his wits to establish himself in this turbulent age and forge his own path to power?