Bringing Prosperity to Taihang

[Collaborative writing] [Farming] [Slow burn] [Ensemble cast] This is my first time writing, so I hope you’ll offer plenty of advice. Two hundred people travel through a wormhole from the modern era to the Northern Song in 1118. They go from speculators who only care about making money to rallying voices atop the mountain, because at last they understand the words of their forebears: “A land strewn with wailing souls and soaked in blood, all for the sake of one thought: saving the people.” The engineering team boosts productivity with more efficient machinery. Beside the agronomy team’s experimental rice paddies, people cheer at the prospect of ending hunger. The medical team uses sulfa drugs to stop the spread of plague. The transmigrators bring new hope to a broken world, then face the nobles and scholar-officials as they launch a furious counterattack. Chen Ren clutches a blood-stained letter written by a Northern Song girl in the Handbook for Barefoot Doctors. Its crimson strokes fly like a banner: “Sir, we don’t need a better Great Song. We need to tear down that plaque in the Hall of Supreme Harmony that says ‘Mandate of Heaven.’”