What tragic ballad of Yashan? I’m a construction-obsessed farming tycoon who started out hauling bricks. Even if I transmigrate into the emperor of a fallen dynasty, I can still build a new Song empire in the South Seas and claim the throne!
Zhao Bin, a rough-and-ready bricklayer, is struck by lightning and transmigrates. When he opens his eyes, he’s Zhao Bing, the last emperor of the Southern Song, with the Yuan army at the gates and his ministers waiting to die! Remembering the humiliating ending in the history books, where the emperor drowned himself, he flies into a rage! Trapped in the body of a seven-year-old emperor, he uses a battered jade pendant he found to unlock the advanced technology in The Exploitation of the Works of Nature, improves the fire lance, and rescues the remnants of the Yashan army.
He seizes Quanzhou, rebuilds the navy, stockpiles supplies, and leads tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians on a flight to the South Seas! While flirting with the sweet, gentle young doctor Lin Wanying, he throws himself into farming and construction: purifying water with lime, preventing scurvy with pickled vegetables, clearing wasteland to grow crops, firing bricks to build cities, digging canals to bring in water, and smelting iron to make tools. He transforms the wilds of Borneo into a paradise that can feed the Song people and soldiers!
