In the final years of the Great Ye, the realm is divided into four, with powerful clans controlling the court and common-born sons treated as little more than blades of grass.
Lu Chen, a modern-day librarian, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of an impoverished scholar with the same name. He wakes to a desperate situation: his family has been implicated in a literary inquisition and condemned to the death cells, while he is locked in the county school's library tower, covered in wounds and clinging to life.
In this age of powerful clans and a weakened throne, Lu Chen discovers that his mind holds five thousand years of human civilization: from double-entry bookkeeping and statistics to project management and the beginnings of psychological warfare, from special operations to financial warfare...
This isn't transmigration. It's an overwhelming advantage through knowledge.
When everyone believes the Lu family is doomed, Lu Chen clears his entire family of charges before the female chancellor Shangguan Yi with an intricate system of “accounting reforms.”
When a great disaster strikes the northern frontier and enemy forces bear down, he turns refugees into elite troops through work-relief programs and builds an unbreakable Great Wall of red brick.
When the great clans bring a century of power to bear against him, he wipes them out with a bloodless financial war.
When the realm is torn apart, he reunifies the shattered land with strategic vision and military technology far ahead of its time.
From death-row prisoner to guardian of the northern frontier, from common scholar to uncrowned chancellor.
Yet just as the people urge him to take the throne and the imperial robes are about to be placed on his shoulders, Lu Chen makes a decision that shocks the entire realm...
