During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, wars broke out everywhere, the Tang Dynasty collapsed, vassal towns were divided, human lives were like grass, and there was no peace in the troubled times.
Zhang Qiling, a graduate student in the Department of History, accidentally traveled to the late Tang Dynasty while staying up late to write his graduation thesis, and became a down-and-out scholar living in northern Anhui. The beginning was a chaotic war, with troops robbing and looting in front of him, and no food or grass to protect him in the back. Only the thousand-year historical knowledge in his mind and the survival instinct of retired scouts were the only things he relied on to survive in a desperate situation.
He built a village in Lao Yaling to promote farming, built walls and trained troops. He used modern knowledge to improve agricultural tools, cultivate terraces, gather refugees, build workshops, and strengthen defenses, turning the barren mountains and ridges into a pure land in troubled times. Faced with Zhu Wen's violence, Li Cunxu's arrogance, and Xu Wen's calculations, he worked step by step, maneuvered in the cracks of the feudal towns, defeated the strong with the weak to repel the bandits, secretly communicated with southern merchants in exchange for salt and iron, and watched the chess game in troubled times with a cold eye.
He recognized that Guo Wei was lurking in the abyss and foresaw that Chai Rongxiong was talented and wise. He refused the coercion and inducement from all forces and firmly chose the leader. From the base in northern Anhui to the center of the court, from protecting his neighbors to assisting the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he used history as a guide to provide advice to stabilize the country, organize the administration of officials, and develop agriculture and mulberry trees.
This is a legend that begins with survival and finally saves the world - a down-and-out scholar sheds his weakness, wields a sword and fights blood, uses a thousand years of wisdom to break through the troubled times, assists the British master with tenacity and loyalty, and finally rises from the mire, becoming the founding minister who witnessed the end of the five generations and helped unify the world, allowing the glimmer of Xingnong Village to finally become the warm sun that illuminates the troubled times.
