Transmigrated as a Bandit Queen: My Husbands, Go Open Up the Land!

[Farming, bandit stronghold construction, playing the fool to catch the tiger, getting rich by any means, disabled powerhouses, vying for supremacy in troubled times, lighthearted wish fulfillment]

Tang Li transmigrates into the body of the female chief of Evil Valley. From the start, the stronghold is so poor even the rats have moved out. All she has left are a limping bookkeeper and a hard-of-hearing cook, while the government's bandit-suppression notice has already been posted at the foot of the mountain.

To stay alive, Tang Li decides to go down the mountain and kidnap people.

From a group of exiles, she hauls back in a sack the world's greatest swordsman, whose hand tendons have been severed; a sinister poison doctor whose face has been disfigured; and a crippled former crown prince.

At first, the powerhouses look at her coldly. “She's just a bandit. No threat at all.”

Then Tang Li turns the poison doctor's peerless poisonous herbs into a cold salad one day, uses the former crown prince's mechanical blueprints to line the pigsty the next, and forces the world's greatest swordsman to use his sword intent to chop wood and clear fields the day after that.

The powerhouses finally break down. “Stop trying to turn evil and go stop her first!”

When the enemy nation's cavalry breaks through the border and the court is powerless to respond, Tang Li leads the “farmers” from her mountain stronghold down to battle and captures the enemy emperor alive in a single fight.

The whole court is shaken. “How are these bandits fiercer than the Imperial Guards?”

The powerhouses grit their teeth. “Obviously, we have to fight fast, or she'll go back and start bossing us around again!”