I Am Lin Chengye, a Thousand Households in Liaodong, Ming Dynasty

In the early years of Chongzhen, war broke out in Liaodong. Lin Chen, a modern retired non-commissioned officer, accidentally traveled through time and possessed Lin Chengye, a hereditary family in Liaodong, Ming Dynasty. What he took over was a guardhouse that was riddled with holes: the ordnance was in decay, food and pay were in arrears, the soldiers were old and weak, and military households were fleeing. The upper-level military attachés deducted military pay, and the civil servants in the court talked nonsense and ruined the country. Without the heaven-defying system and the huge sum of money that came out of thin air, Lin Chengye could only rely on modern military literacy and break the situation with difficulty based on the reality of Liaodong. Reorganize the troops and horses of the headquarters, eliminate the old and weak, and establish a well-disciplined grassroots fighting force; clean up the farmland and try to plant sweet potatoes and corn to improve the military rations; reorganize the military equipment, improve firearms and city defense; deal with the managers, governors, and general soldiers to protect their own troops in the cracks of party disputes. Huai'an fought head-on against Hou Jin, and carried out border suppression and appeasement simultaneously, resisting foreign enemies while reorganizing the local area. He witnessed with his own eyes the long-established structure of the Ming Dynasty, the greed and corruption of the bureaucracy, and the suffering of the soldiers and civilians at the bottom. Should he just drift with the crowd and become cannon fodder in troubled times, or should he use the meager strength of a thousand households to carve out a way out in the era of collapse? The war in Liaodong continues, and Lin Chengye's journey through troubled times begins! …