One sentence summary:
Chen Yumo, a doctor of archeology in 1985, was excavating tombs of the Warring States Period in Luoyang when he was brought to the Qin State in 264 BC by a strange gold-inlaid dagger. When he woke up, he became a Patriotic immigrant who was about to starve to death. He had a deserted fiefdom - a hundred acres of overgrown fields, and an adobe house with air leakage from all sides.
Story summary:
That year, King Qin Zhaoxiang was on the throne, Bai Qi was in his prime, and Lu Buwei was still doing business in Handan.
That year, Chen Yumo was twenty-three years old, standing in a desolate village with nothing but two thousand years of knowledge.
Survival is the first priority.
He struggled out of hard labor at the canal construction site, used modern agricultural knowledge to open up wasteland and cultivated land, and used archaeological experience to identify wild vegetables and herbs. He met lower-class people like Li Zheng and Han Wu, and gradually entered the center of power in Xianyang - improving iron smelting technology, participating in the compilation of "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", becoming a disciple of Prime Minister Lu Buwei, and giving lessons to the young Ying Zheng.
He witnessed the aftermath of the Changping War, witnessed Lu Buwei's dominance and desolate suicide, witnessed Qin Shihuang's iron-blooded journey to unify the six countries, and also witnessed the heavy shadow of burning books and humiliating Confucians.
And the dagger he brought when he traveled through time was always hidden by his side. The gold inscription on the sword reads: "In the twenty-sixth year of the Qin Dynasty, Lu Buwei was the prime minister, and the weapon of the Chen family who built the pool." - The twenty-sixth year of the Qin Dynasty was 221 BC, the year when the world was unified; Lu Buwei had committed suicide fourteen years ago.
Who made this sword? Why cast? Is that "Chiren Chen" his ancestor, or... Himself?
