Gu Linyuan, a 28-year-old ancient book restorer, accidentally encountered an anomaly in time and space while repairing a fragment of a book called "Daxia Fengwu Zhi". In the burst of purple light, his consciousness traveled back to the heir apparent of the Ningyuan House of the Great Xia Dynasty with the same name.
The seventeen-year-old prince was already frail, but due to the decline of his palace and the obstruction of his title succession, he became ill and died from grief and anger. What Gu Linyuan inherited was a mess caused by internal and external troubles: there were only eight loyal servants left in the Hou Mansion, there were only twenty-three taels of silver in the account, and there was only enough food for five days; his father died in the battle in the north, but the title edict has not been issued. If there is no improvement within thirty days, the title will be revoked and everyone will be displaced.
At the same time, the civilization fire system was activated in his mind, revealing that this world is in a period of accelerated knowledge generation. Classics are lost, technological inheritance is broken, and the risk of civilization regression is extremely high. The system releases the main task: keep the title within thirty days, otherwise the consciousness will dissipate.
Armed with modern knowledge and the rigor and meticulousness of a restorer, as well as possessing the practical classics left behind by the Hou Mansion, Gu Linyuan is determined to break the situation. He first sorted out the messy accounts in the government and took control of supplies; then he dug out core technologies such as agriculture and water conservancy from dusty books, and combined them with modern cognitive improvement plans, trying to use knowledge as a blade to solve the crisis of survival.
The undercurrent in the capital city at night, the lights of the Minister of Rites' Mansion, the star map deep in the imperial city, and the rumors in the marketplace all indicate that this battle to defend the title will not be easy. And Gu Linyuan, the spark of civilization that landed unexpectedly, not only wants to preserve the inheritance of Ningyuan Houfu, but also ignites a prairie fire in this era of declining knowledge and reverses the fate of civilization's regression.
