[System] [Survival at the End of the Ming] [Team Building] [Expanding Influence] [Building Civilization] In the ninth year of Chongzhen, a great drought ravaged the Central Plains. A thousand li of land lay barren, people ate one another, and the roads were strewn with bones.
Chen Yuan, a graduate student in social sciences, transmigrates into a refugee in a chaotic age. He opens his eyes in a human market in Shanzhou: frozen mud mixed with dead grass beneath his feet, starving corpses packed around him, and he himself a commodity waiting to be slaughtered!
Ding! The [Cornerstone of Empire] System has successfully bound itself to you!
Core directive: Sow the seeds of civilization, establish a new order, build a foundation with people, and secure the realm through strength!
The revival of civilization begins with investing in people the right way!
Eight jin of top-grade green salt leaves the villains stunned. He buys seven lives back and forms his initial team:
A-rank combatant: a battle-scarred, ferocious warrior with superb battlefield instincts, a bloodied blade waiting to be honed;
S-rank special growth type: a mysterious girl carrying a bundle wrapped in rags. Perfect memory lies within her, resonating at the same frequency as the System;
The old, the weak, women, and children all have their uses. Each can contribute through farming, construction, forging, and weaving. In this chaotic age, no one is a burden!
He leads the old and weak to build a stronghold, clears land for farming, refines salt and iron, and forges weapons;
He gathers refugees and talent, establishes rules and order, and builds an ironclad fortress in this age of chaos!
Mutinous soldiers and bandits? Kill them! Tatar invaders and barbarians? Crush them! Corrupt gentry and local bullies? Purge them!
Famine and plague? Fight them head-on with the power of civilization! Heaven and earth collapsing? I will hold up the sky with my foundations!
From an abandoned kiln cave to a realm stretching ten thousand li, from a lone refugee to the ruler of an empire,
I, Chen Yuan, will use the fire of civilization to burn through the bitter winter of the Ming!
But what kind of civilizational legacy is hidden in the bundle the girl carries?
This crumbling realm must be held up by a new foundation, supporting the world for ten thousand li!
No saintly do-gooders, no reckless fools. Survive through reason and build through rules.
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