Starting with Farming, I Help the First Emperor Build a Thousand-Year Empire

Su Yan became the most wretched, down-on-his-luck young noble in Great Qin. His parents were dead, Lu Buwei had seized all the family property, and his pockets were emptier than his face was clean.

His golden finger, the “Myriad Worlds Mall,” activated, but his balance was zero.

“Does the reincarnation System have a bug? In my previous life, at least I died suddenly in a heated laboratory. Am I really going to starve to death in a shack in this one?”

His first order was free, so he chose improved farming techniques. They doubled crop yields, and a single memorial brought the matter to the attention of the thirteen-year-old king.

When he first met Ying Zheng, everyone else knelt and trembled. Su Yan stood there, sharp-tongued, leaving Lu Buwei's agricultural officials speechless. The young king said just six words: “Interesting. But is it useful?”

It was.

Papermaking made bamboo slips a thing of the past. Ying Zheng said, “This is worth a hundred thousand elite troops.” Improved crossbows made Lao Ai's rebels charge to their deaths three times, like moths flying into flames. On the battlefield where Chu was conquered, the “heavenly thunder” of gunpowder roared, and six hundred thousand iron-shod hooves trampled an entire era into dust!

While everyone else was still hacking at one another with bronze swords, he had already equipped Qin's army with weapons two thousand years ahead of the world.

Wang Jian said, “Good stuff.”

Meng Tian said, “With you around, fighting a war is practically bullying!”

Ying Zheng said, “Su Yan's achievements will be felt a hundred years from now.”

But the most dangerous enemy wasn't on the battlefield. Zhao Gao's web of shadowy spies spread silently, sowing discord between ruler and subjects, framing loyal officials, and plotting to seize the throne.

“Zhao Gao, you've lost. You thought His Majesty had no true friends by his side. You were wrong.”

With his sharp tongue, he crushed the court; with technology, he outclassed the Six Kingdoms. Four great beauties chased him all over Xianyang.

He reshaped civilization with an “Institute of Heavenly Ingenuity” and rewrote the nation's destiny with a “Millennium Stele.”

The First Emperor said, “Su Yan is the only friend I've ever had.”

In this life, Great Qin would last far longer than fifteen years.