A modern agricultural technician is dressed as an eight-year-old farm boy. When he opens his eyes, he sees a ruined house with an earthen bed, and he has no meal left.
Fortunately, he has the "Shen Nong's Eye" - he can see through land fertility and crop diseases at a glance.
He improves saline-alkali land and introduces high-yielding wheat. While others depend on the weather, he relies on scientific farming. From filling his family's stomach to making a splash in the countryside, Li Yuan understood that in this highly hierarchical Xia Dynasty, just cultivating the land could not protect his job.
Then take the imperial examination and exchange knowledge for power!
He rose to prominence in the county examination, his words in the government examination were astonishing, and a piece of "Nongben Lun" stirred up the chaos in the court. Coinciding with the century-old locust plague, he, a scholar, was in danger and was ordered to use modern plant protection methods to eliminate the locusts invisible. He won the favor of the emperor and entered the dynasty as an exception.
From then on, above the court, he was in tit-for-tat confrontation with the conservative gentry; below the court, agricultural technology schools blossomed all over the countryside.
Blocking someone's way of making money is like killing your parents. He was convicted of fraud in the imperial examination, corruption and false accusation, and an imperial edict sent him to death row. At the time of life and death, the calls for his life from the government and the public were deafening - the people he taught with his own hands became his strongest supporter.
This is a contest between one person and an entire era.
He spent half his life proving that change can start from a seed.
