[Historical romance + strong female lead + System + sweet romance + tycoon + satisfying read + infrastructure and farming + broken engagement and exile + comeback and face-slapping]
“Some worthless exile banished to the bitterly cold far north actually thinks she can marry into my Marquis household?” Her fiancé flung the letter breaking off their engagement in Gu Changle’s face, then turned around and married the most eligible young lady in the capital.
Gu Changle took it with a cold laugh. Bringing along a blind old nanny and a limping guard, she headed straight for Liangzhou, the poorest city in all of Great Xia, where refugees swarmed and corpses lay everywhere.
No one knew that the moment she entered Liangzhou, a voice rang out in her mind:
[Territory Population Cashback System bound! Liangzhou’s current population: 31,250. Daily income: 31,250 taels of silver!]
Watching hundreds of thousands of taels pour in every day, Gu Changle grinned from ear to ear.
Liangzhou was poor? The land was barren? No one wanted to come?
She would spend her way through it! Build Great Xia’s largest silk mill! Pave its widest highway! Open free schools! Anyone willing to settle in Liangzhou would receive land, an ox, and silver, all based on the number of people in their household!
To multiply her daily income a hundredfold, then ten thousandfold, she used silver notes to transform a living hell into a sleepless divine city that drew people from all nine provinces in a frenzy!
When her former fiancé’s Marquis household was confiscated and its members exiled to Liangzhou, he saw the night pearls embedded in the city gates and Gu Changle counting money atop mountains of gold and silver. He regretted it so bitterly that he wept blood on the spot.
The first part is good, but the middle part doesn't work very well. Then I find out that the heroine has a system and tells others about it.