I Became a Tyrant and Saved My Country Through Infrastructure

Lin Yuan, a modern structural engineer, transmigrates by chance into the doomed tyrant of the fictional Great Yong dynasty. From the start, it’s hellish difficulty: the dynasty has just three months left, the treasury is empty, rebel armies are at the borders, the officials have either defected or are playing dead, and public support stands at a mere 12 points out of 10,000. If it doesn’t rise, he’ll drop dead. After binding to the Golden Age Builder System, Lin Yuan decisively abandons the original ruler’s self-destructive ways of debauchery and instead opens the granaries, redresses wrongful convictions, improves farming tools, builds roads and bridges, and develops gunpowder and infrastructure... The people: His Majesty has changed! The loyal ministers: We are willing to give our lives for you! The rebels: Why is this war getting harder and harder? Lin Yuan: Stop kneeling and get back to work. I just want to stay alive.