I Went Southwest to Become a Tusi

Blurb: Before Meng Tongyu died, she was still thinking about the land she had never managed to lift out of poverty completely. She had been a cadre stationed in a village to help alleviate poverty.

When she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated and been reborn several centuries earlier in the southwest, as the chieftain of the Chaxi tribe. She and the gaunt tribespeople under her leadership stared at one another.

Meng Tongyu sighed. She had no golden finger, the must-have for transmigration, and no all-purpose System.

But she did have government officials from the central court constantly pressuring her, neighboring tribes eyeing Chaxi territory and hoping to annex it, and tribespeople who couldn't agree among themselves and wanted to consult divination whenever a problem arose.

On the road to prosperity and lifting her people out of poverty, she could only rely on herself.

In the eyes of the other chieftains, the old chief of the Chaxi tribe was chronically sickly, and the newly appointed young chief was useless. It was only a matter of time before the tribe's land became theirs.

But after waiting and waiting, all they saw was the Chaxi tribe go from not having enough to eat to eating well, from lacking proper clothes to everyone wearing new clothes, living in new homes, and studying Han Chinese. The tribe went from being easy prey, with no ability to fight back, to building formidable city defenses and training elite troops...

In the end, they had to pack up their things, surrender their lands, and lead their people in welcoming the new chieftain.

This impoverished land found prosperity and a new beginning.

[Guide to this story]

1. A construction-focused story, carefully researched, with no golden finger. Step by step, the people work their way out of poverty and toward prosperity.

2. There is a male lead, an as-yet-unnamed government official.

Theme: The fire of conviction burns on, generation after generation