Agricultural graduate student Zhao Ji traveled across time to serve as a farmer in the Qin state. On the eve of Shang Yang's reform, he improved farming tools and pioneered the method of retting in barren fields and ridges. When the wasteland produced an astonishing amount of grain, he quietly promoted not only the yield figures per mu, but also the gears of history. Between the iron-blooded reforms and the conquests of other countries, a grain of millet was quietly rewriting the fate of the Qin Dynasty.
