The Top Scholar Goes to the Frontier: From Conquering a City to Building a Northern Kingdom

Modern-day office drone Lin Qing wakes up as a disgraced duke who has just passed the imperial exam at the top of his class, only to be banished to the frontier by a powerful minister. Five hundred aged and infirm retainers and two thousand mouths to feed are all he gets in exchange for a rundown city short on both troops and provisions. Everyone expects him to die, but with the System he opens up farmland, trains soldiers, gathers refugees, sweeps away the northern raiders, and builds a kingdom on the northern frontier!