Cheng Mo, a modern engineer, unexpectedly transmigrates to the fictional Great Zhou dynasty and becomes magistrate of Linchuan, a remote border county. Armed with a mysterious infrastructure System and cutting-edge technology from another era, he must face a desolate city buried in blowing sand, the Northern Di cavalry eyeing his territory, and undercurrents of political intrigue at court.
When two hundred thousand refugees from the fallen Yan Province surge toward his county like a tide, Cheng Mo tears open the government granaries and melts down arrowheads, using a thunderous display of silver to cow an imperial inspector. He builds ice fortifications and manufactures sulfa drugs, using ultraviolet disinfection to fight a plague of corpses. Prism-like walls of bronze giants refract a rainbow of deadly light, while biogas-heated greenhouses bring out-of-season crops to harvest, transforming Linchuan County into a jewel of the northern frontier amid famine and bitter cold.
This is a fierce clash between modern thinking and ancient civilization,
a deadly fusion of bronze gears and quantum code,
and the story of a transmigrant writing history in its cracks with a misaligned technology tree.
