[Famine Years + System + Farming and Infrastructure + Fiercely Protective + Ruthless and Decisive + Contest for Supremacy]
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, a severe drought left the land strewn with corpses. The whole village was chewing tree bark and eating clay to survive.
Chu Chen, a modern underworld kingpin, transmigrates and becomes a village rogue who was struck dead by lightning while stealing grain. From the start, he has nothing but bare walls and a starving, skin-and-bones young wife who clings to him and protects him with her life.
A start in hell? No problem! Chu Chen awakens the [Heavenly Mandate Divination System]. He gets one divination a day and a bird’s-eye view of the whole map, letting him seek good fortune and avoid disaster!
“Ding! [Great Fortune]: Five hundred paces south, in a dry well, you can dig up fifty jin of rice hidden by a landlord!”
“Ding! [Moderate Fortune]: At the crooked tree west of the village, a thirty-jin wild boar is about to knock itself out. Hurry over and claim it!”
“Ding! [Great Misfortune]: Tonight, village rogues will climb the wall to steal grain. Bury a trap ahead of time and you can kill them with a single strike!”
So while the villagers’ eyes glowed green with hunger and they fought over half a sweet potato, the delicious aroma of stewed meat wafted from Chu Chen’s home every day, making the whole village drool.
A bully comes to steal his food? Local gentry plot against him? Villagers try to guilt-trip him into giving things away?
Chu Chen wipes the blood from his steel saber and sneers. “I was making the rules in my previous life before you were even born. Reach for anything, and you’ll lose both your hand and your life!”
From a courtyard full of cured meat to an apocalyptic fortress, from gathering displaced people to commanding an army of a hundred thousand.
Years later, the feudal lords are fighting tooth and nail over scraps, only to discover in horror that the village of old has become an impregnable empire, with mountains and seas of grain! Chu Chen sits upon his throne and looks down on the world.
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