- The System only provides blueprints. I'll build my own empire.
On the first day after being reborn, he binds himself to the stingiest System around.
Other people's Systems give them elite troops, provisions, and peerless martial arts, letting their Hosts coast to victory.
His System only gives him blueprints: well-digging, iron smelting, armor forging, and land reclamation.
He has to dig for water in the dried-up riverbed himself; pile up the furnace and hammer out iron himself; and train his own soldiers, one by one, from among the refugees who have resorted to selling their children to survive.
[This System only provides data, not answers. Whether you live or die is up to you, Host.]
In his previous life, he was Prince Jing, a young soldier with a string of glorious military achievements. Yet his entire maternal clan of three hundred people was executed, the tendons in his hands and feet were severed, and he ended his life with a cup of poisoned wine in the Cold Palace.
When he opens his eyes again, he is back at nineteen, in a prison cart bound for the desolate province of Huangzhou. Eight assassins lie in wait ahead, and a thousand miles of barren land stretch beneath his feet.
In this life, he will neither plead his innocence nor beg to live.
As refugees slaughter one another over a pit of murky water soaked with corpses, he digs a well and uncovers a spring that can keep them alive.
As powerful families occupy barren land and drain the people dry, he builds furnaces and smelts iron, forging Huangzhou into an impregnable stronghold.
One well, one furnace, one written code of law, and a million hearts won over.
From a prison cart in Huangzhou to the golden throne room in the capital, he will rebuild this rotten realm from the ground up with his own hands.
[Infrastructure Building] [System] [Power Struggle] [Smart Characters] [No Saintly Protagonist]
The plot is very good and does not drag out at a fast pace 👍