What can you do with a sack of rice?
Chen Xiaofan transmigrates into the body of a rural orphan on the verge of starvation, but is bound to the World-Building System. Five jin of polished rice a day turns out to be the lever that can move an entire era!
He sells rice for silver, takes in maids, makes cement, and smelts steel. Starting from a thatched hut, he fights ignorance with literacy classes and conquers nature with water-powered mills. Then he takes on a decaying dynasty with flintlock rifles and an unstoppable tide of steel!
When telegraphs carry messages thousands of miles, railways cut across the wilderness, and steam engines roar as they tear through the night of the old world...
See how a single grain of rice puts down roots and sprouts, until it becomes a towering imperial tree!
This is more than the journey of an infrastructure-building fanatic. It is an epic about the fire of civilization spreading across the land!
