I Forged a Golden Crow at the Start—This Ming Dynasty Isn't Right!

Zhang Xiaoyi wakes up in the collapsing Ming Dynasty with nothing but a system interface and a leaky hut. Starving in Chongzhen's famine-plagued empire, he's one bad meal away from death—until his bizarre system turns trash into treasure. Rotten vegetables become divine elixirs. Broken mirrors and torches? A miniature sun god. Armed with reality-bending powers, Zhang rewrites history: toppling corrupt nobles, revolutionizing education, and unleashing supernatural forces into a world that never saw them coming. But when Earth's apocalypse crashes into his carefully crafted utopia, two timelines…