Farming + Infrastructure + Building Wealth + Face-Slapping and Crushing Scumbags
Jiang He, an agricultural science master's graduate, opened her eyes to find herself in the body of a frail eldest daughter who had been thrown out by her awful uncle's family during a severe drought. There was only half a sack of moldy coarse rice in the house, and behind her were two younger siblings so hungry their eyes were seeing stars.
Other people transmigrated with a System. She relied on hard-earned knowledge: composting and raising seedlings, crop rotation and intercropping, finding water and digging wells with primitive methods, measuring canals, and building levees. With nothing but a hoe, she transformed a barren saline slope into a treasure trove.
Awful relatives blocked the door and tried to steal her grain? She tore up the household division agreement right in front of them. They wouldn't get so much as a shred! A local bully demanded protection money? Grain merchants hoarded grain and drove down prices? Officials falsified the disaster reports and embezzled relief funds? With a wildly fast-growing rice seedling and a set of rotten accounts she'd uncovered, she made every one of them kneel and cough up what they'd swallowed.
Just as her granaries filled, canals connected, workshops spread across five counties, and a commendation from the court seemed within reach, an even greater storm drew near. High-ranking officials from the provincial capital had set their sights on Qingyang County's grain trade, while an estate steward from a vassal prince in the capital had quietly headed south.
Could she protect the family business she'd built from the ground up with her hoe?
