I, Niu Ren, Turn the Fourth Calamity from the Start

【Economics PhD transmigrates + The Fourth Calamity + alternate history + behind-the-scenes player guidance】 Niu Ren transmigrates to the Great Yan Dynasty. He expects to spend years studying for the imperial exams and slowly building a career, but immediately sees the truth: most of the court officials and martial heroes of the jianghu are actually “players” from another world! They kill monsters, level up, and stir up trouble as they vie for supremacy, treating everyone else as NPCs. Economics PhD Niu Ren grins. “Well, well, a real-life strategy game? Balancing the game and motivating players are my specialties!” And so... The Minister of War (player): “Kill him! His new policies are getting in the way of my military merit farming!” The Noble Consort (player): “This young scholar is interesting. Add him to my list of targets.” Niu Ren quietly opens the “Heavenly Dao System” and posts a quest: 【Hidden Event: Qinghe Village Infrastructure. Reward: rare title ‘Infrastructure Maniac,’ +1,000 Merit Points】. The next second, the whole server erupts: “Boss Niu is awesome! Farming is the best!” With The Fourth Calamity precisely guided by economics, the whole game takes a turn: battle maniacs form groups to suppress bandits and keep the peace, lifestyle players go wild inventing things, and tycoons spend big to buy government bonds... Niu Ren: “Quit messing around and get to work boosting productivity! This game designer will lead you all to conquer this world!” Then, one day, the players look back in surprise and realize that the prosperous age they built with their own hands has risen like the morning sun!