In a Famine-Stricken Borderland, I Start by Running a Grain and Oil Shop

Zhao Liang is a retired special forces soldier who unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of an idiot in the ancient Great Xia Dynasty.

That year, famine struck the frontier, and heavy snow blocked the mountain passes. Nearly every household in Qingniu Village had run out of food.

Zhao Liang woke in a dilapidated thatched hut. Seeing his beautiful sister-in-law clutching him and weeping, and his eight-year-old biological younger sister collapsed from hunger, he felt as if the sky had fallen.

Wait, why is the ancestral twin-fish jade pendant on his chest getting hot?

[Twin-Fish Jade Pendant Store activating...]

[Grain and Oil Shop unlocked. Use store coins to purchase any item in the store...]

From then on, Zhao Liang's family no longer had to go hungry or freeze.

He kept a low profile and built up his strength in secret, unlocking more and more store maps: a vegetable market, a trading center, a logistics park, an arms factory...

Unfortunately, Qingniu Village changed too abruptly and caught the attention of all the surrounding powers.

Surrounded by wolves on all sides, with the Tartars invading from the south, strength was the only way to prevail in this chaotic age!

Zhao Liang steeled himself and enclosed an area ten li around Qingniu Village, building a city of reinforced concrete.

"If you're going to force my hand, then I'll build high walls, stockpile grain, and take this empire for myself!"

(Early on, he develops the land and builds his forces. Later, he fights to rule the world.)