There’s Always Some Fool Trying to Destroy My Empire

Wang Xuan transmigrates into the Great Xia Empire, a hegemonic power in another world, and becomes its emperor.

The good news: this empire has stood for nearly five hundred years and dominates the world. The bad news: Great Xia is rapidly declining, and many powerful countries are trying to challenge its supremacy, even using proxy wars to make Great Xia bleed.

The good news: this world's technology is at the level of the 2020s on Blue Star, so he can use computers and phones. The bad news: Great Zhou's industry is severely hollowed out, though its financial sector is thriving.

The good news: to flaunt its supremacy, Great Xia sends four carrier groups to wage war on a small country. The bad news: the carrier groups are badly outdated, their carrier aircraft are only at the early fourth-generation level, and the war is going terribly. The old emperor dies of rage.

Fortunately, Wang Xuan has a System that lets him exchange for modern weapons from Blue Star. He turns the tide of war and once again places the empire's prestige above the rest of the world.

What? A country is pushing the boundaries of human ethics by crossbreeding species, and this hybrid gorilla openly declares, “Why should only humans be exempt from being killed and eaten?” What a coincidence. Wang Xuan is a veteran player of Stellaris. Eager to undermine the enemy country's credibility and showcase Great Xia's righteousness, he hastily delivers a speech in the style of the United Nations' declaration. But then the X-Men, Superman, the Hulk, and other humanoid beings appear to protest.

Wang Xuan panics. Something is not right about this world. Hadn't his ministers said Great Xia was invincible? He urgently contacts the System to exchange for superhumans, but the System replies, “That function is not available at this stage.”

Wang Xuan curses, “What good are you, then?”