Better to Build Infrastructure Than Play Politics

New story: Farming Under the Secret Identity of My Future Boyfriend. Preorder for a nation-building story: But I'm Really Not a Rebel. If you're interested, please check them out. Blurb: A versatile, people-serving "prime minister" bottom x a wild prairie wolf top who seems lovestruck, but may not be so simple Song Qingyuan x Lian Ti One day, business tycoon Song Qingyuan transmigrates into the abandoned son of a vassal prince who has raised his own army. He is forced to live as a hostage in the enemy state of Southern Zhou. He has all the knowledge of a modern Chinese person that could benefit the people, but all he can do is lie flat and give up. Until he meets the King of Mobei at a banquet. The king, who has been driving Southern Zhou back at every turn, spends the entire evening staring at him. As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Song Qingyuan has a sudden realization. This friend may be a bit annoying, but developing Mobei... isn't out of the question? Lian Ti: He's willing to come back to Mobei with me. He must have feelings for me. Song Qingyuan: Stop staring. That's enough. Smile politely. Lian Ti had always been certain that everything in Mobei had been won on horseback, and that his own life would end on horseback too. It was the fate of every King of Mobei. But Song Qingyuan makes paper and salt, improves crops, and develops technology, giving Mobei another future. A future where the country is peaceful and prosperous, and the people are well-fed and well-clothed. The land that was once barren becomes the richest region in Mobei. The tribes that had been itching to rebel willingly submit. At first, people think the hostage from Anping is simply a fame-seeker, using a few shabby tricks to win people's hearts. Only when Mobei grows stronger by the day do they truly realize that Song Qingyuan has no interest whatsoever in the lofty imperial throne. "As someone caught up in a struggle for royal power, it may sound ridiculous to say this. But at first, I simply didn't want the people to live in hardship." "People aren't born into this world just to wield the highest power. That's not the only way to live a meaningful life." The eagle that once soared across the grasslands finally spreads its wings, circles down, and lands on the shoulder of a young man as resilient as a pine. From then on, this road, destined to be full of hardship, is no longer a lonely one. One-on-one romance, happy ending, equally matched, each other's first love, age gap with the top younger [Important Notes] 1. The bottom comes from the modern era to ancient times, and the plot moves relatively slowly at first. 2. Alternate history, so please don't nitpick. Some aspects of production and technology are based on the Sui and Tang dynasties, and later developments will try to remain consistent with the level of production at the time. 3. A mix of political maneuvering, nation-building, military affairs, and the development of agriculture and animal husbandry. The romance and career storylines are equally important. 4. The top has a strong presence. This is a romance between two like-minded people who are evenly matched. ------- Preorder ------- But I'm Really Not a Rebel Jiang Hui is the youngest associate professor in the history department at A University. To get closer to his students, he buys several currently popular historical novels, planning to use them as a starting point for the new semester's courses. One moment he's preparing his lessons and analyzing the plot's implausibilities. The next, he's transmigrated into the BL novel he's just opened. He hasn't had time to finish the book, so all Jiang Hui remembers is that the protagonist bottom is a prince of one country, while the protagonist top is the regent of another. But he transmigrates into neither a prince born to luxury nor a regent with great power. Instead, he becomes the leader of a band of outlaws in an unknown mountain hollow in a chaotic age. It takes Jiang Hui less than five seconds to go from confidently surveying his surroundings to staring blankly into space in despair. Please, he's a bandit! Throughout history, the authorities have only had two ways of dealing with people like him: Crush them and kill them all, or recruit them and kill them later. Jiang Hui crouches on the mountain, despairing, while his underlings gaze at him hopefully, as if all he has to do is give the word and they'll grab their weapons, head down the mountain, and bring him ten or eight women to keep at their stronghold. ...Thanks, but no thanks. To stay alive, Jiang Hui has no choice but to take his underlings down the one-way road of clearing land, farming, stockpiling grain, recruiting soldiers and horses, and building walls. Rule number one for staying alive: Build high walls and stockpile grain. Once the city walls are built and agriculture, industry, and commerce begin to develop, Jiang Hui starts worrying about war every day. Who would have thought that the unconventional general would find a third way... Poor Jiang Hui spends months on high alert, only to let his guard down for one moment and fall for the enemy's good looks. It's not that our side lacks self-control. It's that the enemy is too cunning. After all, this man can hold his own in a formal setting and in the kitchen, and by day he can train the troops. At night... "Ahem. It's understandable to fall for a man like that, isn't it?" Seated in the general's tent, Jiang Hui tries to argue his case while marking up a deployment map. Theme: Build a beautiful new Liuzhou