Historical Derivative Fiction with a Focus on Infrastructure Building 历史衍生偏基建文

1. 1 如 How to Farm a Thousand-League Realm for the First Emperor's Little One 如何为始皇崽耕出万里江山 Mulan Bamboo木兰竹Romance1.7M WordsCompleted Zhu Xiang, a professor of agricultural science, transmigrates into the Warring States period as a commoner in Zhao. At last, his life is beginning to improve. His elder sister, who ran off with all the family’s valuables to follow a wealthy merchant, dumps her son on him, saying she’s fallen for another rich merchant and can’t bring the child along. An angry Zhu Xiang is just about to find someone else to raise the boy when he learns the child is named Zheng, and his father is Yiren, a prince of 205.5kFavorites432.7kClicks/ch3.3MGifts

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   This is a heartwarming story about raising children and farming. Although the pace isn't fast, this kind of historical fiction has a unique charm that makes you want to slow down and savor it.

2. 2 今 I Still Don't Know My Real Father Is Zhu Yuanzhang 今天我仍不知道亲爹是朱元璋 Mulan Bamboo木兰竹Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Please, readers, be kind. Don't insult other authors in the comments here, and don't recommend this novel under other works! I bow my head to you again and again!] Chen Biao transmigrates into a merchant family amid the chaos at the end of the Yuan dynasty. To stay alive, he can't hide his transmigrator talents, so he pretends to be a fortune-telling, all-knowing mystic. At a very young age, he makes the Chen family the wealthiest household after Shen Wansan. Then his father, Chen Guorui, tells 195kFavorites434.3kClicks/ch2.2MGifts

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   It's so good, it always brings tears to my eyes.

3. 3 谋 [Three Kingdoms] Can Strategists Not Ascend the Throne? [三国]谋士不可以登基吗？ River Wind a Thousand Miles Away千里江风No CP2.9M WordsCompleted [Three Kingdoms power struggle. The heroine isn't a strategist, she's a ruler.] [Complete. Anti-piracy measures cover 50% of the text. The full story is being polished and proofread. I take no responsibility for pirated versions.] The seventh year of Guanghe. The Yellow Turban Rebellion. Qiao Yan is bound to Strategist System No. 068 and awakens in the body of a dying little girl amid the starving dead. The System tells her that her goal is to become the greatest strategist under heaven. Sitting 189.2kFavorites328.2kClicks/ch829.9kGifts

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   I love the Three Kingdoms conquest genre; with a system and cheat codes, why can't I be an empress?

4. 4 戏 A Playful Ming 戏明 Spring Creek Flute at Dawn春溪笛晓Romance1.8M WordsCompleted Wang Xiaowen was reborn as a baby with his memories intact. His mother was his father's second wife, and every day she relentlessly brainwashed him: "You've got a bad older brother. He loves showing off, and he's the biggest show-off in the whole area!" "When he was born, he even had some immortal send a dream, so your father treasures him like anything!" "And when your father and the others named him Yun, meaning 'auspicious clouds,' they even renamed his home Auspicious Cloud Tower!" "Hmph!" S 187.2kFavorites437.9kClicks/ch3.1MGifts

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   The writing is witty and humorous. Although it lacks dramatic twists and turns, it vividly and profoundly portrays a real Wang Xiaowen and a real and captivating Ming Dynasty.

5. 5 我 I Became Qin Shi Huang's Second Qin Emperor 我给始皇当秦二世 Gold and Jade Fill the Courtyard金玉满庭No CP1.1M WordsCompleted A biological father-daughter relationship with the First Emperor Zhao Buxi, a remnant of the Six Kingdoms living in the Qin dynasty and the daughter of a beauty from the fallen state of Zhao, looks at her golden finger, then at the talented man she has just recruited. She falls into deep thought. You need talent to make use of a golden finger. Xiang Yu could do it, Liu Bang could do it, so why couldn’t she, Zhao Buxi? “Great talent, the Qin dynasty is tyrannical and the people are suffering. 184.4kFavorites320.7kClicks/ch676.4kGifts

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   A very cheerful article

6. 6 大 [Tang Dynasty] Chang'an of the Great Tang [唐]大唐长安 Gold and Jade Fill the Courtyard金玉满庭Romance1.1M WordsCompleted When Li Chang’an opened her eyes again, she was in the Tang Dynasty. The good news: It was the Kaiyuan era, the golden age of the Tang, and she was a daughter of Emperor Xuanzong. The bad news: The An Lushan Rebellion was just around the corner, and her father disliked her so much he wouldn’t even give her a princess’s title and made her become a Taoist nun. Princess Shou’an was born to Cao Yena Ji. She was born in the ninth month of pregnancy. The emperor hated her and ordered her to be dress 175.8kFavorites238.2kClicks/ch656.8kGifts

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   A really enjoyable read, I loved it, and I want to find more of these kinds of stories to read.

7. 7 定 [Wu Zhou] Founding the Dynasty [武周]定鼎 River Wind a Thousand Miles Away千里江风Romance2.1M WordsCompleted [Current arc: Wu Zhou] Wu Qingyue never imagined that one moment she’d be grabbing her keyboard to argue with someone that the claim Empress Zhaoyi had murdered her daughter was complete nonsense, and the next she’d be reborn as Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of Tang’s third daughter. In other words... the daughter of Wu Zetian who died before her first birthday. [Good news: You come with a System.] [Bad news: The System has just one function: convert 153.4kFavorites216.6kClicks/ch503kGifts

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   A novel featuring two female protagonists: Empress Wu and her historically deceased daughter, Wu Qingyue.

8. 8 无 Regardless of the Wei and Jin Dynasties 无论魏晋 Moon Beneath the Nine Provinces九州月下Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Wei Jin has spent sixteen years in ancient times after transmigrating there when chaos suddenly breaks out. Entrusted by the head of the household to take the young master and flee to Lingnan, she is living from day to day when, by chance, her cheat ability awakens. She can summon people from the modern world a thousand years in the future to develop a base, as long as they agree and don’t ask to be paid. Today’s headline: The real-world game No Matter Wei or Jin launches, taking you on a t 148.9kFavorites327.4kClicks/ch554.8kGifts

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   Aside from the male lead feeling a bit superfluous, everything else is perfect. It's kind of like the fourth catastrophe genre, where the female lead disguises herself as an NPC to recruit players and help them with infrastructure development.

9. 9 武 [Great Tang] The First Female Official of Empress Wu [大唐]武皇第一女官 Gu Simu顾四木Romance1.8M WordsCompleted Jiang Wo sat in one of the palace gardens within the Taiji Palace. When she woke one day, she discovered that she had become a low-ranking female official in the Tang dynasty during the Zhenguan era: a seventh-rank record keeper in the Palace Discipline Bureau, responsible for recording palace rules and punishments. Her first assignment was to explain palace etiquette to the newly arrived consorts. After she had finished reading through the regulations, one young woman stepped forward. “Could 128.3kFavorites184.4kClicks/ch724kGifts

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   This story features two main characters, Jiang Wo and the Empress, and includes a small ensemble cast, with each character possessing both physical and intellectual depth.

10. 10 穿 I Transmigrated as Emperor Huizong's Princess 穿越成宋徽宗公主 Vastness of the Underworld蒿里茫茫Romance3.0M WordsCompleted Zhao Luming thought the perfect heroine’s story would go like this: She’d be reborn as a princess, adored by the emperor and cherished by her brothers, clever, charming, and beautiful, with a host of handsome young men from the greatest aristocratic families in love with her. Then she’d embark on a thrilling, eventful life. The story Zhao Luming actually got was: Everything above was true, except the emperor was Emperor Huizong of Song, her brothers were Emperor Qinzong and Wanyan Gou, and the 115.4kFavorites112kClicks/ch1.1MGifts

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    The long novel is still being serialized; I'm currently waiting for it to finish so I can read it all at once.

11. 11 我 [Three Kingdoms] I Can Command the Wind and Rain [三国]我，呼风唤雨 Gold and Jade Fill the Courtyard金玉满庭Romance818k WordsCompleted She’s in the chaotic Three Kingdoms era, but she’s a goddess. Things seem pretty good from the start… Wait, which faction’s goddess is she, exactly? Chen Zhao stared at the people in front of her, all wearing yellow turbans and charging forward as they shouted, “The Azure Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall rise! In the year of Jiazi, good fortune shall reign!” She fell silent. So… she was a rebel? Chen Zhao rolled up her sleeves. Since she was here, what else could she do but make the b 101.6kFavorites108.6kClicks/ch525.2kGifts

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    "Calling the Wind and Summoning the Rain" is truly, truly, truly wonderful. Perhaps because it's the author's latest work, it feels quite mature, with very delicate handling of emotions. Seeing Zhao Zhao agree to become the Yellow Turban Goddess brought tears to my eyes. Reason told her that becoming a goddess would bring many troubles, but her conviction triumphed over reason. "Though millions oppose me, I will go!" It's so captivating, so vivid and three-dimensional, making me believe that this world truly exists, and that our Zhao Zhao pacified the world and ushered in another golden age.

12. 12 在 Those Years as a Sickly Lord in the Three Kingdoms 在三国当病弱主公的那些年 Drunk Among the Flowers醉酒花间No CP1.1M WordsCompleted [Exclusively published on Jinjiang Literature City. The author revises obsessively and takes no responsibility for pirated versions on other platforms.] - Blurb - * Yuan Huan transmigrated to the first year of Chuping, just as the campaign against Dong Zhuo was beginning. He crawled out of a pile of corpses and discovered that this body belonged to Yuan Ji, the eldest legitimate son of the illustrious Yuan clan of Runan, a family that had served as high ministers for four generations. Yuan Ji 87.4kFavorites195.7kClicks/ch121.8kGifts

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    Good

13. 13 汉 Marquis of Han 汉侯 From Afar来自远方Danmei (BL)1.2M WordsCompleted Transmigration is a skill. With bad luck, you could end up in a truly terrible situation. For Zhao Jia, how or why he transmigrated doesn’t matter. His greatest challenge is surviving in a frontier commandery of the Western Han. A new story coming soon. Theme: 82.2kFavorites197.7kClicks/ch320kGifts

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    This should be the second historical novel I've read.

14. 14 桓 Graceful Bearing 桓容 From Afar来自远方Danmei (BL)1.6M WordsCompleted Waking up to find himself transported to the Eastern Jin dynasty was something Huan Rong could handle. The times were a little rough, but at least he came from a powerful family. He had food and clothes aplenty, and could live quite comfortably as a spoiled young lord. The problem was that his mother and her love rival were both so charming it was impossible not to pity them; his father was always on the verge of rebellion; and his brothers all had it in for him, constantly looking for a chance 80.5kFavorites235kClicks/ch195.2kGifts

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    The first historical fiction novel I ever read was so captivating that it left a deep impression on me.

15. 15 化 The Song Dynasty Transformed 化宋 Moon Beneath the Nine Provinces九州月下Romance1.3M WordsCompleted - “Look, Hutou, this is your full name: Zhao, Shi, Cheng!” “…” Oh, I get it. I’m a transmigrator. My full name is Zhao Shicheng, my nickname is Hutou, and I’m a year and a half old. If there isn’t another Song Dynasty Zhao family, then I’m probably Tang Wan’s second husband? The Zhao Shicheng of “Everyone knows the Phoenix Hairpin, but no one knows me, Zhao Shicheng”? The tragic supporting character in the heart-wrenching love story passed down through the ages about the patriotic poet Lu You? 63.2kFavorites114.4kClicks/ch315.5kGifts

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    It's from 2022, I've forgotten most of it, I'll go back and reread it.

16. 16 开 Hand Over the Imperial Seal from the Start [Nation-Building] 开局先交出玉玺[基建] Bluebird Among the Stars青鸟临星Danmei (BL)1.2M WordsCompleted Xiao Zirong, once an earthbound spirit, arrived in Southern Qi with an entire library and became a mute puppet child emperor, a figure never recorded in history. With two powerful ministers vying for control, on the fifth day after becoming the little mute emperor, Xiao Zirong put on an incredible performance. Tears shining in his eyes, he tremblingly presented the imperial seal to 43.2kFavorites86.9kClicks/ch74.7kGifts

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    I'm really not familiar with the historical background of this story; it seems to be from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, but it's still a very good watch.

17. 17 穿 I'm Going to Die After Reincarnating as the Emperor's Uncle [Western Han] 穿成国舅爷后我要死了[西汉] Halfway Through the First Month元月月半Multi-Orientation1.3M WordsCompleted My brother-in-law is the emperor, my younger sister is the empress, my younger brother is a great general, my eldest nephew is the Marquis of Champion, and my youngest nephew is the crown prince. Who am I, you ask? I'm Wei Changjun, a short-lived man who won't live to see thirty. So, when my younger brother is busy defending the country, I keep myself alive by farming. when my younger sister is busy securing her position as empress, I keep myself alive by farming. when my eldest nephew is being 26.2kFavorites76.4kClicks/ch59.5kGifts

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    Well enough

18. 18 女 [Three Kingdoms] I’ll Be the Empress [三国]女帝我来当 Dinosaur Flower恐龙花Romance908k WordsCompleted Complete, with bonus chapters still updating... [Female-led power struggle] [A parallel world made up on the fly] The fifth year of the Xiping era. Yang Qiu was reborn as a child in a peasant family at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty. Then she started gathering pigweed and raising pigs, working the fields and pulling weeds, pounding grain to remove the husks, hauling manure to fertilize the land... If you’re asking about Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Cao Cao, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, and the rest... T 19.3kFavorites22.7kClicks/ch19.3kGifts

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    This one is also very good, I recommend it.

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