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Transmigrated to a Famine Year: Leading the Village to Be the Boss

share time: 2025-12-13 12:30:22

Su Xiaoqing, an overworked office worker, stayed up late finishing an agricultural project PPT—only to wake up in the third year of Qianyuan, a year of severe drought. The village well was cracked dry, neighbors were stealing the last bag of seeds with hoes, and the old village chief was crying to beg the county magistrate for less grain tax. Clenching her teeth, she used modern knowledge to dig a hidden canal to divert mountain spring water, grew sweet potatoes with an yield of 800 jin per mu in the sand, and even led the villagers to fight off grain-robbers with bamboo traps. But just as things got better, the county magistrate suddenly demanded three times the grain tax! Su glared: "Better be 'bosses' than starve!" She led the village to move to the abandoned "Hulao Pass" on the back mountain, raised the flag of "Taiping Village," and announced: "Refugees get food; robbers—first pass my rake!" Unexpectedly, the "bandit den" in the famine became a "paradise" that refugees flocked to. But a bigger trouble came—the emperor sent an imperial inspector to suppress the "rebels!" Su held the newly calculated sweet potato yield table and smiled: "Suppress? If you suppress us, who will grow grain for you next year?" This small village in the famine is about to stir up a storm...

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