As soon as Shen Yan, a doctor of geology, opened his eyes, he became the nuisance son-in-law of a farmer in the Northern Song Dynasty. The village was flooded every year, and the county government could only build embankments to make money. Carrying a compass and a shovel, he asserted that "there is an ancient river under his feet and there is black gold underground." The villagers regarded him as a madman.
When others prayed to God and Buddha to cure floods, he led people to dig vertical drainage wells; when the government was worried about salt and iron, he found a shallow oil field with a trilobite fossil. The advance team of Jin soldiers were driven back by fierce fire, and the city walls made of concrete stunned the Liao envoys——
Later, the emperor wrote a plaque in his own handwriting: "This son knows the earth's veins and can control the mountains and rivers."
And Shen Yan looked at the mineral vein marks all over China on the exploration map, and just wanted to bury the fire of the industrial revolution into the genes of this land in advance.
> Hard-core farming + scientific dimensionality reduction attack | There is no golden finger, only the thousand-year national destiny hammered out by the geological hammer.
