From the Start, My Entire Family Was Exiled. I Built Up the Land and Became Empress

(Transmigration, infrastructure, farming, strong female lead, empress, satisfying revenge, wild imagination, comeback)

The moment postdoctoral urban-planning researcher Jiang He'an opened her eyes, she found herself transmigrated as the daughter of a disgraced official whose entire family had been exiled.

All thirty-seven members of her family had been sent to the wild frontier. The old and the young alike were starving, and several had already died before they even reached their destination.

Everyone else was weeping. Jiang He'an was making plans.

The place of exile was a barren Lingnan wasteland rife with miasma?

As it happened, she'd just unlocked an encyclopedia of inventions and crafts in her mind.

Making bricks and building houses? Consider it done.

Clearing land and planting crops? Easy.

Building bridges and roads? That's her specialty.

Fish farming, silkworm raising, and commerce? Just a few side projects.

At first, the people in the exile settlement looked at her as if she were an idiot.

Later...

The local magistrate knelt and begged her to become his adviser.

The tribal chief next door brought lavish gifts to ask for a partnership.

When the officials at court heard that a treasure trove had appeared in Lingnan, they clamored to bring her back to the capital.

The Ninth Prince, supposedly abandoned by the imperial family, stood before her with a cold expression.

“Jiang He'an, you build the city, I wage war. Shall we join forces and claim the realm?”

Jiang He'an raised an eyebrow. “We can work together, but I call the shots.”

Xiao Yanzhi fell silent for three seconds. “...Fine.”

Later, the history books recorded:

“Jiang He'an, founding empress of the Great Yuan Dynasty, rose from a place of exile. Through her mastery of every craft, she ushered in an age of prosperity unmatched throughout history. Her husband, Xiao Yanzhi, fought across the realm for her and gladly stood behind her. The people called them the ‘Sage Emperor and Empress.’”