The Sovereign Rules as One

In the fifth year of Xianping during the Great Song (1002 AD), twenty-three years had passed since the donkey god of Gaoliang River left his hoofprints behind.

That year, Kou Zhun was serving as acting prefect of Kaifeng with the title of Vice Minister of Justice. Fan Zhongyan was still buried in his books, and Bao Zheng had just turned three. Han Qi, Fu Bi, Di Qing, Ouyang Xiu, and the others were still a few years from being born.

The Battle of Chanyuan between Song and Liao was still two years away. Yelu Longxu and his mother in Liao were planning to invade the south, while Li Jiqian of Xiazhou had led his troops to capture Lingzhou. The Great Song’s borders were anything but peaceful.

But a sensational story had recently broken in the capital: Xue Juzheng’s grandson, the son of a former chancellor, had sued his stepmother, Lady Chai, accusing her of planning to take the Xue family’s ancestral estate and remarry a young stud!

Xue Dazhuang: Who? Me? I went to the Kaifeng Prefecture to sue my stepmother?!

Xue Dazhuang: ...I’m the capital’s most notorious wastrel? The emperor even issued an edict forbidding me to sell the family estate?!

Xue Dazhuang: The young studs my stepmother picked are actually two of them? One is Zhang Qixian, a vice chancellor, and the other is fellow vice chancellor Xiang Minzhong?!

Xue Dazhuang: Are widows in the Great Song really this bold?!

But his System dad, 748, had eagerly caught the scent of juicy gossip.

748748: (rubbing its paws) If you won’t do it, I will.

748748: Starting today, I’m moving into the Great Song’s gossip fields!

748748 was a maintenance System on the Myriad Worlds Network, a tech genius who was both a workaholic and a serial spoiler.

Eventually, someone filed a complaint against it. It was reassigned to the Main Storyline Department, where it successfully changed careers and became a storyline System.

The Main Storyline Department was nicknamed the Myriad Worlds Dump. It took in all the abandoned stories whose main plots had fallen apart.

As soon as 748 came online, it found its Host, Xue Dazhuang, slacking off. With no other choice, it exploited a bug and took over itself.

And so, during the Kaiyuan era, a System appeared and stirred things up in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

But in the Xianping era, how could it reform a timid, spineless Great Song?

Of course, it would start with the emperor, crush the treacherous officials with hard work, put an end to factional strife, and reform its idle Host. No challenge could scare this System!

Also known as: A Reform of Emperor Zhenzong of the Great Song

A slow-paced historical transmigration and farming story. 748 has no common sense and loves gossip; under pressure, it becomes a career-minded workaholic. It clears the game through sheer brute force.

A standalone story in the same series, with no romance: A System in the Prosperous Tang, about 748 outsmarting its slacker Host, Xue Dazhuang. A man and a System stir up trouble in the Tang Dynasty, succeeding through sheer brute force.

Coming soon: A System in the Fall of the Ming, and Reviving a Poor Sect with My Market Stall Cart

Completed: I Do Science in Ancient Times, Master of Industry, and Miracle Farm in the Desert. I love long stories, and there’s plenty to enjoy. Come on in!

Core theme: Rely on yourself to grow strong, enrich the people, and strengthen the nation.