In the first year of the Chongzhen reign, the Little Ice Age ravages the land, refugees are everywhere, Later Jin eyes the throne hungrily, and the Great Ming dynasty teeters on the brink. Lu Mingyuan, a down-and-out scholar from Northern Zhili, transmigrates by chance and awakens the [Seeds of Civilization] System, opening a one-way livestream connection to a human civilization observation project in the 23rd century.
Armed with modern knowledge, he cuts through the ignorance of a chaotic age: he builds salt fields to earn his first fortune, establishes a work-point system to unite the people, and holds public hearings and trials to shatter the old order of the powerful. With livestream interaction as his wings, he brings together the strength of past and future: tips from future viewers turn into Civilization Points, comments provide ideas that light up the tech tree, and support from across the internet gives him the means to turn the tables.
He recruits a down-on-his-luck blacksmith to make firearms, appoints Lin Hongyu, an orphan of the frontier army, as a general, and brings in Su Qingxue, a government official’s daughter, to manage finances. He gathers talent from across the land to build up Lu Family Manor as a base. From driving out bandits with a simple star fort to launching industry with crude steelmaking, from laying foundations by establishing institutions and winning over former officials to facing Later Jin in a clash of cannon fire, he advances step by step across the scorched earth of the late Ming, building his strength through infrastructure and farming, with institutional civilization at his core.
A civilization livestream spanning time, a hard-nosed journey to build a nation amid chaos: he will rewrite the fate of the Great Ming with modern ideas and make the seeds of civilization spread across China in this dark and turbulent age!
