Fixing Regrets Makes Me Stronger, Starting with the Jingkang Humiliation

[Rewrite History's Regrets + Jingkang from the Start + System Upgrades + Possessing Emperors + Rousing Comeback]

Courier Fang Yuan dies on a stormy night and wakes up as a laborer in a mine in the Great Sheng Dynasty.

A panel pops up while a foreman is whipping him. The System says that for every historical regret he changes, the Host's physique, intelligence, and command ability will all improve.

The first regret: twenty days before the Jingkang Incident.

He becomes Emperor Qinzong of Song, Zhao Huan. He has the identity of an emperor, but can't command a single army.

The Jin army is at the gates. Li Gang has been demoted, the elderly General Zong Ze is on his deathbed, and the whole court is scrambling to cede territory and sue for peace.

In his previous life, Fang Yuan learned demolition work in the mines. He sets his sights on the terrain beside the Jin encampment outside Kaifeng.

His beginner's gift pack gives him Han Shizhong's naval warfare template, but Kaifeng has no water.

Yet the template's instinct for commanding troops helps him discover three thousand Imperial Guards who haven't been entirely corrupted.

He smashes the peace treaty in court and makes public the intercepted secret letters of the pro-peace faction.

“Those who want to kneel may kneel first, but leave your knees behind.”

Twenty days later, atop Bianliang's city walls, Fang Yuan will turn the humiliation of Jingkang into a victory. And the laborer's body back in the mine is beginning to withstand a blacksmith's hammer.