The Greatest Landlord in Great Ning

Gu Beichen is a modern city dweller with an uncompromising demand for quality of life. After an unexpected car accident, his soul transmigrates to the Great Ning dynasty, where he becomes the sickly young heir of a small landowning family in Qinghe County, Nanzhou Prefecture.

Faced with coarse, bitter salt, monotonous cooking, inefficient and cumbersome farm tools, and outdated, inconvenient amenities, Gu Beichen’s obsessive-compulsive tendencies erupt!

“Why is this salt so bitter? This won’t do. It needs refining!”

“You just boil vegetables in water? Where’s the wok? Get a blacksmith to make me one!”

“Plowing this slowly? Bring me the design for a curved-plow!”

Starting with an iron wok, Gu Beichen launches his “Ancient Life Improvement Plan.” Amid complaints and innovations, he gradually puts his modern knowledge to use in ancient life: opening restaurants, making refined salt, improving farm tools, and building waterworks...

But as he makes more and more changes, he draws the attention of all kinds of powerful forces: the county government’s covetous gaze, merchants’ schemes, family conflicts, and even the imperial court’s notice. Gu Beichen must navigate these forces with intelligence and a modern mindset, protecting what he has built while quietly changing the world. In the end, he becomes a legendary figure who transcends the boundaries between scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants.