A civil engineering PhD transmigrates into the body of the most pitiful prince, framed by his brothers and left kneeling in a torrential downpour to await death? Li Changge laughs: This palace intrigue is so lowbrow. Better to head to the frontier and build things!
While others vie for favor, he deliberately ruins his own reputation, volunteering to govern Shu Province, a land rife with miasma. The court and the people all laugh: That useless fool is going to his death! Little do they know that Li Changge has a trove of modern knowledge, and these barren mountains are his gold mine.
A plague rages from the start? Artemisinin and quinine deal with it at once, and the natives fall to their knees, crying that a god has descended. No food? Champa rice and hybrid breeding multiply yields tenfold. Short on iron and weapons? Water-powered bellows and blast furnaces turn out steel, giving his army equipment three centuries ahead of its time!
He builds cities and roads, gets into “real estate,” and introduces a work-point system that sparks a production boom. As torrents of steel crush invading enemies, Shu brocade and distilled liquor monopolize trade across the nations, and ocean-going fleets return with mountains of gold and silver, the very people who once mocked him finally panic.
The old emperor on the throne trembles as he reads the reports: “Th-this really is my useless son?”
And Li Changge stands atop a hundred-meter city wall, gazing down at the industrial empire he built with his own hands. He smiles and murmurs, “Now it’s my turn to choose how I’ll be emperor.”
The ultimate builder sweeps through the ancient world, upending everything from the frontier outward!
The protagonist is a loser, very good looking, given seven stars
In fact, it was over as soon as it started. He thought that he had already lost the trick of self-defilation. He would just shut down the clan for the rest of his life so that he could do whatever he wanted to do and become a king. He just finished writing it.
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