A Princess of a Fallen Kingdom? I Won This Empire with the Plow

[Transmigration | Empress | Nation-building | System golden finger | A chaotic era | A touch of ensemble cast]

Lin Xi transmigrates into an age of warring lords and becomes Zhao Lingxi, a princess of a fallen kingdom.

The knowledge provided by the System is her greatest golden finger. Think "curved-plow design" and she gets the plans; think "blast furnace ironmaking" and she gets the formula...

A chaotic age doesn't need a princess who wants to restore her fallen kingdom. It needs a new emperor who can grow grain with iron plows, connect the Nine Provinces with highways, and break hereditary privilege with a system of military ranks.

She takes an abandoned hostage from a mass grave and makes them a general, trains an idealistic former minister into her chancellor, recruits a merchant's daughter to manage the treasury, and appoints a mad poison doctor as her physician.

Military and financial power are kept separate, while civil authority and military command balance each other. No one can rebel, and no one dares.

In thirty years, she builds an empire that relies neither on Heaven's will nor on bloodline, but solely on productivity and institutions.

The protagonists of this age are not only its emperors, but also...