From the Start, I Recruit Xin Qiji to Join the Outlaws and Rebuild China

Name: From the Start, I Recruit Xin Qiji to Join the Outlaws and Rebuild China
Author: The Little Orange Cat on the Top Floor

开局拉辛弃疾落草，再造华夏

by The Little Orange Cat on the Top Floor (顶楼的小橘猫)

Status: Completed
Length: 446k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical & Ancient
Updated: 7mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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[Hardcore Farming + Southern Song History + Institutional Reform + Rebuilding China] I’m Chen Ning, reborn as the chief of a mountain stronghold, and I specialize in “poaching” famous generals. Xin Qiji was ordered to suppress bandits. I turned around and invited him to join us: “Sir, I’ve got farm tools that can double crop yields and powerful crossbows with a range of five hundred paces. All I’m missing is a leader!” He cursed me for treasonous audacity, until I took him to see the stronghold’s school, its work-point fields, and the elite new army in the military academy, shouting, “Drive out the barbarians!” I told him: “Loyalty to the ruler can be blind loyalty. Loving your country means loving the people who live in it!” Later, Bi Zaiyu and Meng Gong both fell into my hands. Our rules spread north from Chuzhou. Han Tuozhou called me a traitor, and the Jin emperor saw me as his greatest threat. On the eve of the northern expedition, I asked Xin Qiji, “Are you afraid?” He flung down his bowl and rose to his feet, his voice shaking the wilderness: “I’ll go with you, even if it means dying nine times over! China deserves a different way to live!”

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