Reborn at the Border: I Rise to Power by Taking a Wife from the Government

Empress Wu Qingying of the Great Qian Dynasty was set up by treacherous schemers. The throne changed hands, and she was forced to live among the common people. The Qiang barbarians repeatedly raided the Great Qian's borders, while other enemy nations watched like tigers poised to pounce. The dynasty teetered on the brink of collapse, beset by troubles within and without, and the people could barely make ends meet.

That same year, Lu Ming, a poor student, transmigrated and was reborn in the body of a young scholar named Lu Ming from Bazi Village in Nanchong County, Nanjun, Great Qian. From the start, he married the empress, who was living among the common people. His new family was a collection of peculiar misfits: biased and mean-spirited, they were determined to make him enlist in the army in place of his older brother, Lu Yang. Through a twist of fate, Lu Ming joined the military. With the empress secretly supporting him, he began resisting the Qiang barbarians' invasion from Nanchong County.

During this time, Lu Ming reformed Nanchong County, vigorously developed agriculture, cultivated seeds, invented fertilizer to boost yields, improved ironmaking techniques, and developed firearms to strengthen the army. He killed so many Qiang barbarians that they no longer dared cross the border, and the people enjoyed abundant food and clothing and came to love him dearly.

Lu Ming recruited and expanded his forces all the way from a low-ranking soldier to a powerful border governor commanding a mighty army.

Years later, the Great Qian Dynasty fell into pieces, and rebels laid siege to the imperial capital. The dynasty was on the brink of ruin, and Lu Ming received an imperial order to march and quell the rebellion. As he looked at the empress waiting to be rescued atop the capital's walls, he was horrified to discover that the wife who had shared life and death with him was none other than the reigning empress...