Ding Cheng, a modern city planner, accidentally traveled through time and became the most unpopular seventh prince of the Yin Dynasty. Due to the failure of the court struggle, he was "exiled" by the emperor's decree to Feiyunchuan, the poorest place in the northern border of the empire, and became a nominal lord, but in reality he was an abandoned son waiting to die. Facing the desperate situation of approaching winter, prowling bandits, less than 100 households, and panic, Ding Cheng activated the "civilized infrastructure system." The system measures public support, population, and construction into points, which can be exchanged for blueprints such as cement formula, high-yielding potato seeds, and primary iron-making technology, and releases phased tasks.
His core goal is to survive and grow, but there are many obstacles: the local powerful Zhao family sees him as a stumbling block to occupying land and secretly colludes with bandits; the greedy imperial brother (the third prince) is far away in the capital, but controls the food and grass supply of the border army, intending to trap him to death; and the "one-year initial prosperity" countdown given by the system is a sharp sword hanging above his head. Failure means losing everything and falling into the abyss again.
Ding Cheng started by building warm houses and improving farm tools, using system points to redeem key technologies to attract refugees and form a guard team. With every step he takes, he touches the cake of the old interests. From competing with the Zhao family for the right to reclaim wasteland, to breaking the frontier army's monopoly on salt and iron, he used waterwheels, hardened roads, and harvests of food to build Feiyunchuan from a wasteland that everyone avoided to a looming pearl in the north. The cool part is to witness with your own eyes that a wild land is gradually transformed into a paradise for living and working in peace and contentment in your own hands, using modern management and technical thinking to crush the inefficiency and conservatism of ancient times. And the emperor who originally banished him
