Exiled from the Start, I Planted Red Flags Across the Land

[History] [Soul Transmigration] [Great Han]

After transmigrating into the Eastern Han Dynasty, I became an abandoned son of the Geng clan. From the start, I was exiled a thousand li and sent to the western expeditionary army, a force marching into certain death.

My clan brother Geng Gong saw me as dead weight, and my fellow soldiers thought I was a harbinger of doom.

No one knew that my mind held the entire future course of the Great Han!

While Ban Chao was still studying hard at the prefectural office, I had already presented the general with a plan to "cut off the Xiongnu's right arm"! While Geng Gong was about to be besieged in the Western Regions, I had already dug wells and stockpiled grain in advance!

To the north, the Xiongnu raided the border. The kingdoms of the Western Regions were wavering, corpses littered the Silk Road, and the glory of the Han dynasty was on the verge of collapse.

Geng Yun cast off the "harbinger of doom" label others had given him and took command of the three armies.

Using fields of wheat as bait and trenches as traps, he wiped out the Xiongnu vanguard and captured their chieftain alive!

He restored the curved-plough, rebuilt the dragon-bone waterwheel, and turned tens of thousands of mu of wasteland in Yiwu into fertile fields!

He taught the surrendered Xiongnu to embrace Han culture and introduced a contract system, making them compete against one another!

At first, I only wanted to stay alive under my clan brother's command and, while I was at it, keep Geng Gong alive.

Later, seeing the astonishment in Ban Chao's eyes, I decided to give him a hand and bring forward the legend of "throwing down the brush to join the army."

After that, I wanted more. Why should the Western Regions fall again decades from now? Why should the mighty Han fall?

In this life, I will plant the Great Han's dragon banners across every land west of the Congling Mountains. I will even bring envoys from Rome to my city of Luoyang, where they can learn what it means for all nations to come pay tribute!