Transmigrate to the late Tang Dynasty, and the Five Dynasties will never come. Yang Zhengyun is the twenty-eighth-generation descendant of Yang Zhen of Hongnong. He ends up living in the Chishui River Valley of Jiannan Circuit. By the time of his father, Yang Shunjiang, the family has fallen into poverty, reduced to wandering refugees who never know where their next meal will come from. Forced by the times, fourteen-year-old Yang Zhengyun takes to the mountains and becomes a bandit chief. While collecting tolls from travelers below, he is struck on the head by a single blow from a bodyguard escorting a caravan. His body is then taken over by Yang Zhengquan from the twenty-first century. When Yang Zhengyun wakes, he is terrified by this unfamiliar world. To survive and build up his resources, he establishes his own army and trains his own officials, destroys the great clans, and gives power to the people...
