After transmigrating into the body of a fatherless boy on the Northern Song frontier, he thinks that if he keeps his head down and swallows his grievances, he can live out his days in peace.
Until cold reality proves that yielding never earns respect. It only invites ever greater exploitation and ends with his family destroyed.
If this age grants ordinary people no peace, then I will define a new set of rules
He casts off his fear, rekindles his hope, and begins an astonishing campaign to "upgrade civilization."
Using modern knowledge, he turns the scattered frontier into an iron wall, building the Deer Horn Defense Line, the Divine Machinery Research Institute, and more...
With basic economics, he breathes new life into a dying empire, establishing the Westward Road and the Eastern Sea Route...
The blueprints he has yet to unveil conceal even more terrifying ideas, ones that will overturn everything people of this age believe about the future of nations, warfare, and civilization.
From the frontier to Bianjing, from obscurity to the heart of the empire's fiercest reform movement, he is like a modern meteor falling into an ancient, fathomless pool. The ripples he creates will eventually sweep across the land.
Among those drawn to follow him are:
A royal scion frustrated by his lack of prospects, torn between duty and ambition;
A remarkable woman who has seen through life and death, burning through her life in her own way;
And a beacon of hope that refuses to go out in the face of despair, striving to illuminate the deepest darkness.
The upheaval Xinke Le sets in motion will send their lives far from their original courses, weaving them together into an epic of sweeping grandeur.
This is one man's ultimate challenge to an ancient civilization, waged with modern wisdom.
It is also the dazzling brilliance an era can unleash when infused with a spirit unlike any it has known before.
Friends, The Great Song Civilization Upgrade Plan is now underway!!!
