A tough guy from the engineering field travels through the Daoguang period, from the technical person in charge of a construction site to the Qipin magistrate of Anping County, a poor county in southern Shaanxi. When he woke up, what was waiting for him was not fine clothes and fine food, but a county treasury worth thirty-two or seven cents, eight hundred stones of grain in storage, people waiting for food, rogue bandits entrenched in the mountains, and a poor, weak, and on the verge of despair.
Without a golden finger or systematic blessing, Chen Mo relied on the rigor and pragmatism of an engineer and the principle of "finding problems and solving problems" to make a living in this barren land step by step. He recruited rogue bandits, built canals to divert water, improved charcoal kilns, fired "Anping ash", promoted high-yielding crops, and used modern engineering thinking to solve the dilemma of ancient county governance; he respected the people and sympathized with his subordinates, and fought side by side with his master Zhou Shenxing, the scholar Chang'an, the yamen Zhang Degui, and the leader of the recruitment He Heizi, etc., Uniting people bit by bit and leveraging the vitality of Anping County.
From starvation to food self-sufficiency, from rugged mountain roads to smooth trade routes, from disunity to political integrity, Chen Mo used his two hundred years of knowledge and a pair of practical hands to transform a poor mountainous county step by step into a strong county. This is not an earth-shattering dimensionality reduction attack, but a practice about survival, perseverance and hope - running the county with ingenuity, exchanging people's hearts with sincerity, and writing a counterattack legend of an engineering county magistrate in the cracks of the feudal dynasty.
The story sheds the refreshing filter of time-travel novels and focuses on the hard work and perseverance of ordinary people. It includes the fireworks of building canals and burning charcoal, the great wisdom of governing the county, and the warmth and strength between people in troubled times. It explains the true meaning of "everything depends on human effort"
