A Lonely Man in Troubled Times During the Taiping Years

Lin Fu, a graduate student in the Department of History, accidentally traveled through the troubled times of the Later Han Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and became a young man with a broken family outside the city of Chanzhou. This was an era in which "the emperor will rule only if he has strong soldiers and horses". In the past fifty-three years, the Central Plains has changed its masters five times, vassal towns have been separated, and wars have continued. Harsh government and famine are always present, and human life is as light as grass. With the knowledge of a thousand years later and his understanding of the troubled times, Lin Fu woke up and faced the test of life and death - seriously injured, empty in his stomach, surrounded by precarious neighbors and soldiers who might break down the door at any time. He knew very well that if he wanted to survive in this era when human lives were as low as ants, or even hope for a glimmer of "peace", it was far from enough to just rely on the rise and fall of history textbooks. In the absence of doctors and medicines, he used his rudimentary first aid knowledge to treat wounds and prevent minor illnesses; farming was backward, so he tried to improve farm tools and explore ways to increase production; the world was in chaos, and he had to maneuver step by step between war and maneuvering. From a poor boy who only wanted to protect himself to a "capable man" who was gradually relied on by his neighbors, Lin Fu resisted the torrent of troubled times with his meager strength. War is about to break out in the north, the feudal lord's ambitions are hidden, and the shadow of Guo Wei's rebellion is not far away. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.