Famine Years: One Jin of Rice for a Hundred Female Prisoners?

In the dynasty's final years, three years of catastrophic famine left bones exposed in the fields and not a rooster crowing for a thousand miles.

Duan Mo transmigrates into this world and becomes the young clan chief of Duan Family Village in the northern frontier.

After a blizzard, hundreds of his clansmen freeze or starve to death. He is the only surviving man in the entire Duan family.

The family line must not end. The Duan family must survive!

Just then, Duan Mo awakens the Note Shop, where he can purchase supplies.

In the distance, a convoy arrives from the south.

A hundred female prisoners from official families are bound together with hemp rope by government runners. They have gone three whole days without food.

There is no sign of human habitation for another two hundred li.

If Duan Mo doesn't take them in, the runners will abandon the women, leaving them to freeze and starve to death.

"One jin of rice for a hundred female prisoners?"

"I'll take every one of them!"

Duan Mo buys the women.

Only after they wash off the mud and change out of their tattered prison clothes does Duan Mo realize that the women he bought for a single jin of rice are a hundred beautiful ladies from official families, each with her own charms and figure.

What's more, every one of them has a skill: a brave daughter from a military family, a physician from an imperial doctor family, a gifted scholar's daughter from a family of scholars, and more.

With these hundred beauties and the Note Shop, Duan Mo rebuilds Duan Family Village amid famine.

He reclaims fields, builds workshops, digs canals, and raises a new city. In the wilderness between the White Mountains and Black Waters, he transforms a deserted ghost village into a mighty northern frontier city, wealthy beyond compare.