I'm Liu Du, and I'm a Liu Too: I'll Restore the Han with Xing Daorong

Name: I'm Liu Du, and I'm a Liu Too: I'll Restore the Han with Xing Daorong
Author: I Make the Entire Population

我刘度也姓刘，带邢道荣光复汉室

by I Make the Entire Population (我让全国人口)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 473k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical & Ancient
Updated: 6mo ago
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In the fifth year of Jian'an, the Battle of Guandu was imminent. Jingzhou had just been pacified, and undercurrents were stirring throughout the land. After waking from a deep sleep, the protagonist found himself in the body of Liu Du, a minor warlord and governor of Lingling on the borderlands at the end of the Han dynasty. In the history books, he was an insignificant name in a corner of southern Jingzhou. In the Romance, he was a timid, nervous laughingstock who simply went with the flow. But Lingling was now under suspicion from Liu Biao, the Governor of Jingzhou, while local gentry exploited the people and livelihoods were in decline. Its troops were weak and its granaries empty, leaving it liable to be crushed by the tides of history at any moment. If he followed the historical course of events, he would be annexed, replaced, and forgotten. He had no divine weapons, and had no intention of changing the course of history out of thin air. All he could rely on was his understanding of the rules, his insight into human nature, and his clear-eyed sense of what was being wasted. Starting by reforming the salt trade, he gradually dismantled the gentry's chain of interests. With the simplest of systems, he made sure the soldiers were fed, the land was farmed, and the people wanted to stay. He reshaped the power structure through negotiation rather than purges. Without drawing the attention of the realm, he quietly transformed Lingling. At his side were a proud commandant eager to prove himself, and a young scholar who had yet to come into his own but was destined to be remembered in history. There were also countless ordinary people who would otherwise have been little more than a passing mention in the history books. Under his choices, they had their first chance to change their destinies. This is not a power fantasy about transmigrating and immediately conquering the world. It is the story of a man who saw the storm coming early and spent eight years turning himself into a reef no one could ignore. When the fires of war finally engulf southern Jingzhou, and the true heroes of history begin to emerge, Lingling will no longer be a name that can be erased at will.

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