The Deposed Crown Prince Starts an Industrial Revolution on the Frontier

Reincarnated as a deposed crown prince and exiled to the frontier to die?

From the start, all I have is one cooking pot, and I rely on cons to get everyone else to do the work. I’ll take this ramshackle estate!

Then my blast furnace produces its first batch of steel, and my homemade cannon blows the barbarian king’s tent to pieces.

The imperial younger brother who once treated me like dirt now kneels before the palace gates I paved with iron rails.

He wants me to come back and be emperor?

I point to the sprawling industrial city behind me and laugh:

“Take a good look. This is my empire.”