Two PhDs transmigrate into the Great Liang dynasty, only to find themselves in the body of a useless heir whose father is dead and family ruined?
The moment I open my eyes, vicious servants come to seize the family estate. The Crown Prince secretly trips me up, while the Cui family monopolizes the salt and grain routes, cutting off every path to survival. All the estate has left is 482 taels in silver and 12 spies in our midst.
Who says a so-called good-for-nothing has to let others walk all over him?
I exploit the aristocratic clans' fear of the imperial family, pretend to be drunk, tear up the IOUs, and send their lackeys packing.
I reopen abandoned salt wells and triple the profits from illicit salt.
I redesign the curved-plough, rescue Yunxi from famine, and build climate-controlled granaries to seize the aristocracy by the throat.
I open border markets to trade for warhorses. With 50,000 frontier troops under my command, even the princes have to watch their step around me!
But who could have guessed that my father had faked his death and was hiding at Blackstone Pass? A secret alliance between the Crown Prince, Cui Hong, and Great Yan has laid a deadly plague trap. As Zhao Hu takes a poisoned arrow for me, he clutches half a silver lock and says, “My lord, I failed to protect you…”
The account books Uncle Zhong died hiding contain a shocking secret. To protect me, Qinghe personally poisoned her own mother, an undercover agent.
In this chaotic age, I must use modern ingenuity to amass the world's wealth and command a million soldiers, but I must also protect those closest to me!
From drunken wastrel to founding emperor, I, Lin Che, will not yield a single step on my path!
