System + from the start + bankruptcy + lord + farming + coal magnate + another world + tech tree + Industrial Revolution
Jiang Ling transmigrates into the most miserable baron in another world. From the start, he has nothing but a drafty castle and a band of utterly bizarre, melodramatic subordinates!
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Even the System is paying him in IOUs?!
No matter. He discovers endless coal deposits right beneath his feet. The Industrial Revolution in another world begins with mining coal!
“No furnace? I’ll build one myself!”
“No market? I’ll talk people into it!”
“Goblins attacking? Hit them with burning honeycomb briquettes!”
He uses black coal to bring a warm winter to another world, then smelts the first batch of steel in a crude blast furnace.
The Demon King is stunned. “Why can that fire poker pierce my enchanted armor?”
The nobles are dumbfounded. “How does this pauper have more wealth than my family?”
Looking at his warehouses full of gold and his awestruck subordinates, Jiang Ling smiles faintly. “Don’t rush. My steel armada and aircraft carriers haven’t even come online yet.”
Years later, as the battleship guns of Emperor Constantine thunder and aircraft blot out the sky with their shadows, he will always remember that afternoon in the drafty castle when he lit the first honeycomb briquette.
