Shen Mo, a history graduate student, traveled to the late Ming Dynasty and became a refugee on the road to escape famine in Shaanxi.
Behind him are famine and plague that are devouring everything, and in front are the dynasty that is about to overthrow and the cavalry sweeping the world.
Even if you know all the endings of history, you still can't find your own chance of survival.
While others traveled through time and used gunpowder and chemical fertilizers to level the world, Shen Mo only had the fragmentary modern knowledge in his mind and dozens of hungry refugees behind him whose eyes were green.
There is no system, no warehouse, just a desperate situation.
So, he took the stupidest path.
Starting from using plant ash to filter sewage, establishing the rules of no robbing, no killing, and caring for the elderly and the weak, the first brick was fired, and the first waterwheel was built.
Use management to unite people's hearts and use basic science to illuminate technology.
In the deep mountains, a miniature society was built from scratch, which was very different from the old era.
When Li Zicheng swept across the Central Plains, when the Qing army's cavalry entered the pass, when the Southern Ming monarchs and ministers were fighting among themselves.
Shen Mo stumbled and mass-produced the first-generation flintlock gun in the mountain col, debated the "Village Affairs Detailed Rules" by the coal stove, and promoted the three-field rotation system in the fields.
He has no intention of saving the Ming Dynasty, which is rotten to the core. He just wants to earn a piece of pure land for those who follow him in the last days, where they can eat in peace, work hard, and live with dignity.
When the soldiers of the old dynasty, the emerging bandits, and the powerful enemies outside the pass noticed this strange valley one after another, Shen Mo discovered that he had lit more than just a fire for survival.
This is a war between system and brute force, a breakout between builders and destroyers, and a journey through time that attempts to use the skeleton of modern civilization to reshape China on the corpse of the empire.
