Are You Crazy? This Prince Treats the Border Like a Tollbooth

After transmigrating to the Great Qian dynasty, Qin Yuan becomes the unloved Ninth Prince and is sent to Beiliang as cannon fodder from the start.

The court cuts off his food and wages, then sends people to guilt-trip him, hoping to use his life and the lives of his three thousand battered soldiers to wear down the three hundred thousand Northern Mang cavalry outside the city!

Faced with what seems like certain death, Qin Yuan flips the table on the spot.

Fight to the death? Get everyone killed? Not a chance!

That very night, he hangs a red banner on the city wall and shouts into the enemy camp through a megaphone:

“Listen up, Northern Mang brothers! War only creates bad blood. Pay two million taels of silver in tolls, and I’ll open the city gates right away! I’ll even throw in a map of the capital’s defenses. First to pay, first to get through!”

The news throws the whole realm into chaos!

The Northern Mang khan is overjoyed. “Pay up and he’ll really let us through? His Highness the Ninth Prince is a saint! All troops, charge! We’re taking the Great Qian capital!”

The Great Qian emperor falls off his throne in fright. “You rebellious brat! I told you to defend the border and fight to the death, and you dare charge admission to let the enemy into the capital?!”

The court officials are so furious they spit blood. “The greatest traitor in history!”

Meanwhile, Qin Yuan uses the huge toll revenue he’s collected to recruit soldiers in the safety of the rear and build an invincible firearms corps.

When Great Qian and Northern Mang have battered each other into exhaustion in the capital, Qin Yuan leads three hundred thousand heavily armored troops to surround them all.

Qin Yuan: “Northern Mang brothers, your tolls are overdue. Now it’s time to collect the late fees! Won’t pay? Then I’ll take over the whole realm!”