Lin Mo, also known by his modern name Lin Moran, is an ordinary science and engineering student familiar with basic technology, history, and agriculture. Resilient and pragmatic, he has a conscience but is no saint. He gradually matures and transforms amid the chaos of a turbulent age. Technology-driven farming, vying for supremacy in troubled times, devotion to home and country, and the redemption of a people. Using modern knowledge, the protagonist struggles to develop agriculture in the late Ming Dynasty, growing from merely protecting himself to building strength. In the end, he takes part in and profoundly changes the course of history, establishing a new order.
