The Refugee Dynasty

Three years of severe drought left the land strewn with the dead. Upon opening his eyes, he found himself the newly appointed temporary chief of a refugee camp: over three hundred starving people, grain enough for only two days, the previous chief had fled with the supplies, and government troops were set to raid the camp in three days. Everyone expected him to lead the escape, but he could earn merit rewards from settling refugees, restoring production, defending territory, and expanding lands. Starting with a pot, a few acres of wasteland, and a broken camp, he gathered craftsmen, trained militia, seized grain routes, and built military towns, carving a path of survival for refugees in a chaotic world. Years later, the feudal lords of the realm finally understood: they had not been suppressing a group of disaster victims, but a dynasty on the rise. — Description from novelcodex.org