Exiled to a Barren County: A Cement Plant from the Start

He transmigrates as the son of a disgraced official, exiled to a deathly wasteland, and faces three deadly crises from the start:

Three thousand bandits will sack the city in three days, the granary holds only three shi of coarse rice, and all but eight of his men have fled.

Everyone tells him, “Just wait to die.”

Lu Zheng smiles.

He's a chief infrastructure engineer, an expert at tackling the toughest challenges.

Cement, grenades, bastion fortifications, tunnel ambushes…

The rocks and muck that others see as worthless become iron walls in his hands.

When three thousand bandits besiege the city, he takes three hundred peasants and turns a massacre into a crushing counterattack.

Corrupt officials try to steal the credit? He slaps them with hard evidence in the form of a secret letter!

The Northern Shuo army marches south? They can ask the cement in his hands if it'll let them through!

Three years later, the barren county everyone once avoided has become the most powerful industrial hub on the frontier.

When the chancellor reads the urgent border dispatch, his hands and feet turn icy…

No one can keep that exiled official's son under control anymore.