An Engineer's Daily Life Building Infrastructure in Ancient Shu

Alternate history, hard-core infrastructure building, ancient Shu culture, and practical engineering.

Du Yuhang, a graduate student with expertise in both mechanical engineering and water conservancy, is unexpectedly reborn as a destitute refugee at the foot of Jian Mountain in an alternate ancient Shu. Hemmed in by mountains, steeped in shamanic customs, and plagued by annual floods of the Min River, this is a place where food has no flavor without salt and human lives are worth less than grass.

With neither divine powers nor a System, Du Yuhang picks up a stone shovel and uses his engineering knowledge to solve problems the hard way! He extracts the first batch of snow-white well salt in western Sichuan, then adds wild Sichuan peppercorns and dogwood. As the stew bubbles in an earthen pot, its rich Sichuan flavor wins over even the most stubborn elders. He builds dikes and channels, makes charcoal and smelts iron, and digs irrigation canals to turn wasteland into fertile rice fields.

From a humble laborer in the mountains to the famed Master of All Crafts in Bashu, he leads his tribe in cutting through rock and mountains to forge a road through Shu that reaches the heavens, building a prosperous land of abundance with his own hands in the wilderness!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.