Introduction to the novel "Returning to the Qin Dynasty to Become a County Magistrate"
In an archaeological accident, Zhao Henghun, a graduate student in the history department, traveled to the Qin Dynasty in 224 BC and became the unlucky magistrate of Anlu County in Nanjun who was poisoned by powerful men. The beginning was a dead end: powerful men monopolized salt and iron, floods raged year after year, people were displaced, and a bowl of poisonous porridge almost killed him on the spot.
In a desperate situation, Zhao Heng relied on the modern knowledge in his mind to start the road of hard-core county governance. He paved "hard roads" with lime clay gravel to make the muddy official road accessible; he used the dead cattle to make affordable cattle bone soup to relieve the people's suffering from hunger; he built leisure gardens and simple fitness facilities, giving Anlu County a unique fireworks atmosphere in Daqin; he also implemented composting methods and graded water gates to revitalize barren small counties.
He used the laws of Qin as a blade to tear apart the powerful Zhou family; he used people's livelihood as a shield to protect the people under his rule; he worked step by step in the gap between the court and the local government, starting from a small official on the border, walking out of Anlu step by step and heading towards Xianyang.
This is not a cheating time travel, there are no magic weapons, only down-to-earth governance wisdom. Let's see how a scholar magistrate used modern thinking to leverage the foundation of the Qin Dynasty and create a blueprint for a prosperous age from a small border town that made the world look at him!
