Chen Yan, a modern geological engineer, transmigrates to the end of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen’s reign. Using his family’s inherited River Map Compass and his engineering expertise, he draws the Northern Resources and Disaster Map and establishes practical systems such as the Work-Point Contract and the Water Source Commune. Amid the calamities of the late Ming, he hopes to preserve a replicable spark of orderly survival for Chinese civilization.
“If the Great Ming is doomed to fall, we cannot stop the sun from setting. What we can do is keep the flame alive until the next dawn.”
Chen Yan
