The Great Ming Development Zone

Eight years old, transmigrated, and the biggest deal in the household.

Shen Lin transmigrates to the fourth year of the Yongle reign of the Ming dynasty and becomes the young master of the Shen family in Huayang Village. He has all the food and clothes he could want, people to look after him, and doesn't even have to serve himself meals.

His greatest ambition in life is to lie around.

Then a palm-sized little demon with black skin bounces out, calling itself Babata, the spirit of an "Empire-Building System."

Other transmigrators start with divine weapons, mountains of gold, and luxurious mansions.

Shen Lin's start: five thousand jin of potatoes and a planting manual.

That's it?

And here's the kicker: he has to earn points by growing things. The more land he cultivates and the bigger his estate becomes, the more points he earns. If he just lies around in the sun all day, his points will stay at zero forever.

Staring at the pile of dirt-covered tubers, Shen Lin falls silent for a long while, then accepts his fate: plant!

He'll plant them across twenty or thirty mu of land!

He grows potatoes, stockpiles grain, hires laborers, and becomes the village head. He makes up a story for the villagers about a "white-bearded immortal" who showed him the way, telling them not to ask questions and just plant along with him.

But the steward, Shen Fu, runs his fingers over the manual one night and senses something is off.

The source of the paper, the craftsmanship found only in "the palace"...

An eight-year-old landowner, bound to an "Empire-Building" System, sets up his own "development zone" in a poor mountain village of the Ming dynasty.

Watch Shen Lin turn a basket of dirt-covered tubers into a domain where he makes the rules.