Exiled to Desolate Zhou, I Became the Lifeline of the Great Xia Army

[Disgraced Prince Exiled + Territory Management + Playing the Fool and Face-Slapping + Military Supply Business Battles + Border Warfare]

Xia Linyuan, the sixth prince of Great Xia, was widely regarded in the capital as a useless prince.

On the day his engagement was broken off, an imperial edict banished him to desolate Huangzhou. The region had just suffered a snowstorm. Its granaries were empty, the people were starving, the border army was pocketing its pay, bandits had cut off the supply routes, the Northern Di were poised to strike, and the Crown Prince had even sent people to wait for his death.

Everyone thought Huangzhou would be his grave.

But no one knew that the cowardly, greedy prince's body had long since been inhabited by the soul of a modern military engineer.

In public, he played the coward and bowed to the powerful clans to borrow grain. In secret, he audited the accounts and set a trap, luring the bandits to their deaths in a single night.

He opened soup kitchens, repaired the city walls, reorganized the military households, built workshops, took control of salt and iron, and reopened trade routes. He turned a city of the dead into a city teeming with life.

The Crown Prince cut off his supplies?

He seized control of military supplies on the border.

The Northern Di invaded?

He used Huangzhou's new army to force their country to sue for peace.

The court mocked him as useless, the great clans waited for him to kneel, and even the emperor treated him as a mere pawn.

It wasn't until chaos engulfed the realm and war flared again in the north that everyone realized

The useless prince banished to Huangzhou had already become the true lifeline supplying Great Xia's armies.