A history graduate student died suddenly and stayed up all night to study for his thesis. When he opened his eyes, he was transformed into Zhao Heng, the most miserable prince in the Xia Dynasty. His biological mother died young and he had no relatives. His fiefdom was a barren Yunxi River on the outskirts of Beijing. He was a powerful man who controlled the fields. His taxes and money were insufficient every year. Even the third prince regarded him as a marginalized person who could be manipulated at will. It was common for him to withhold supplies and send people to assassinate him.
Without a system or a golden finger, Zhao Heng relies only on his historical knowledge and modern thinking: he uses statistical tables to find out the ironclad evidence that the powerful are hiding their land, and uses the hands of the prefect to take down the local snakes; he uses the loopholes in the water transport system to drive a wedge between the three princes' factions, and backhandedly intercepts the other party's forces; even if he is kicked out as an outcast in the northwest battlefield, he can win over the refugee leaders, rectify and disperse the border troops, and turn the desperate situation into a springboard for his rise.
In the court, the emperor was jealous and his brothers were in trouble. On the battlefield, Xixia was knocking on the gate and refugees were everywhere. Zhao Heng hid the discomfort of the modern soul and worked step by step in the strangling game of feudal imperial power: "Since you are a chess piece, then disrupt the chess game and become the chess player yourself!" From the barren fiefdom to the northwest battlefield, from deep palace calculations to power, let's see how the time-traveling prince uses his strategy to overturn the Great Xia chess game!
