After accidentally falling off a cliff, the modern young man Wang Yang opens his eyes amid a pile of corpses in the third year of Qingli, during the Northern Song dynasty, and finds himself in the body of an orphan boy with the same name. The Great Song is poor and weak, crippled by the Three Redundancies, with Western Xia battering at its borders and the Liao watching like a hawk.
Armed with the fruits of civilization, Wang Yang starts out in a humble roadside inn and uses modern knowledge to shake the world. He refuses a princess’s marriage proposal, outwits Western Xia, and pushes through ruthless reforms, rooting out the Three Redundancies once and for all! When the Divine Machine Battalion’s cannons shatter the false reputation of the “Weak Song,” and the Liao emperor bows in submission, Wang Yang, a commoner, becomes the man who builds an unprecedented golden age.
This is a stirring epic that begins in the Qingli era and completely rewrites the fate of the Great Song!
