Extreme-sports enthusiast Lu Yuanding transmigrates to the Chongzhen era, only to find himself a destitute military candidate on the brink of death. He lives in a drafty woodshed, coughing up blood, with only one loyal servant by his side. He is so poor he cannot even afford medicine.
At the end of his rope, he remembers modern knowledge: penicillin can be extracted from moldy fruit! After repeated failures that nearly cost him his life, he finally produces a miracle drug. One dose saves a wealthy merchant’s daughter, earning him a thousand taels of silver, but it also draws the attention of local bullies and nearly brings disaster upon him.
With his fortune in hand, he returns to his family’s home in northern Jiangxi. He buys barren land, takes in refugees, smelts fine steel, and makes firearms. Yuan Xing, a local gentryman, frames him time and again, government clerks squeeze him at every turn, and bandits seize the chance to attack.
Watch Lu Yuanding use his knowledge far ahead of its time to turn a barren mountain valley into an impregnable “Rock” stronghold amid the chaos, rally the people, train a powerful army, and forge an entirely different path through the flames of war at the end of the Ming dynasty!
