Farming Through Drought: I Win the People’s Hearts and Build a Great Xia

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One blow shatters his own uncle’s bones, leaving the whole village aghast.

A modern-day salesman transmigrates into the body of a down-and-out scholar. From the start, all he has is three jin of old millet seeds and three mu of barren land.

Locusts blot out the sun, bandits surround the town, corrupt officials seize the grain, and the whole village awaits death.

He awakens a golden finger: the better off the people are, the more powerful the things he unlocks.

He digs sweet-water wells, divides the fields into plots, builds earthen walls, and sets up an ironworks. From a hundred jin per mu to six hundred, from a hundred people to tens of thousands, from defending a village to ruling the realm.

The orphan girl who gave him a bran cake becomes empress. The sole survivor of a massacred family becomes a miracle-working physician. The orphan girl bent on revenge becomes a marshal. The merchant’s daughter driven into exile becomes the Goddess of Wealth. Each of the four women has a realm of her own, and none of them is just along for the ride.

When all under heaven finally pledge their loyalty and the entire court kneels to hail him, he waves them off: “I’m just a farmer.”

[No mindless cheat powers. Everything is earned through blood, sweat, and constant improvement. The first 30 chapters are a struggle; things take off after chapter 50, and every chapter ends with a hook.]