Chen Zhao, a defeated soldier from the frontier, drifts into the frozen wastelands of the north, starving and freezing, with death close at hand.
As chaos engulfs the world and warlords carve up the land, craftsmen are treated as no better than weeds.
At death's door, he finds a broken Craftsman God's Token, and a catalog of every trade appears in his mind.
He turns scrap iron into blades and rotting wood into beams, building his fortune from a ruined frontier fort.
He forges weapons, opens mines, digs canals, fires bricks, gathers refugees, and sets up workshops.
With steel and gunpowder, he raises a mechanized city and revolutionizes technology in an age of cold weapons.
From a backwoods master craftsman to the Prince of Zhenbei, he builds the nation through industry and strengthens it through technology.
This is a stirring legend of personal rise unfolding alongside a construction boom.
If you have nothing to do, you can still pass the time by taking a look.