While other transmigrators are busy starting rebellions, Lin Qi chooses to “overturn” the system from within.
They would share the realm with the scholar-officials?
Lin Qi instead makes craftsmen, maritime merchants, and even literate farm women the pillars of civilization.
When the Khitan cavalry pounds at the passes, the grandees in court turn deathly pale.
But behind Lin Qi, new firearms roar along the frontier, merchant fleets return across the sea laden with grain and supplies, and even schoolchildren can say, “The fate of the world is everyone’s responsibility.”
The emperor on the Dragon Throne asks in a trembling voice, “Lin Qi... what is it you really want?”
He gazes north, where snowstorms are gathering. “I want this civilization to find another way to live. No rebellion, but a complete upheaval.”
That's perfectly reasonable.