[Soul transmigration + Alternate history + No System + Rise from the bottom + Farming and conquest + Decisive and ruthless + Love of country and home]
Lin Mo, a modern grassroots official, is caught in an accident and transmigrates into the final years of the Dayong Dynasty, becoming a dying refugee on the banks of the Yellow River.
He opens his eyes to a death trap: his parents have starved to death, he hasn’t eaten in three days, fleeing soldiers are ransacking the area, and a blade is already at his throat!
Other transmigrators become princes or scions of noble families. As for him, from the start he’s down to half a life and can’t even get a proper meal.
No matter! Five years of grassroots experience and a lifetime of historical knowledge are his greatest trump cards!
With no System and no cheats, he relies entirely on modern knowledge to outclass the people of this ancient, chaotic age!
In a drought-stricken wasteland, he uses compost and careful seed selection to grow high-yield crops, so refugees no longer starve to death.
With bandits running rampant, he uses tactical traps to wipe out their stronghold without a single casualty, giving the people a place to live in peace.
When corrupt gentry poison him and government troops move in to hunt him down, he breaks up their coalition with a few words, then turns around and confiscates their estates and wipes out their families, claiming an immense fortune.
Framed by corrupt officials and thrown into a death-cell, he plays his moves one by one and topples the entire county government, going from refugee to an official of the imperial court.
From a starving corpse on the banks of the Yellow River, to chief of Anmin Stockade; from village head over ten li, to magistrate of an entire county; from military governor of eastern Henan, to a warlord vying for the Central Plains!
Dayong is rotten to the core and the land is in chaos. Eunuchs hold sway, regional warlords rule their own territories, barbarians sweep south, and the people are plunged into misery.
If the world has rotted beyond repair, then he’ll smash this old realm with his own hands and build a new age of peace and justice!
Other contenders for power sack cities and plunder, treating the people like dirt.
He raises an army to defend the land and protect its people, keeping taxes and labor duties low so that families can live in peace.
Others are trapped in the schemes of the imperial court
