Transformed into a low-level river worker in the Northern Song Dynasty, Lu Chuan faced a crisis of embankment bursting at the beginning.
While others were vying for power in troubled times, he led a group of mud-legged men to forcibly build a broken Yellow River embankment into a copper wall.
Corrupt officials want to deduct money and food from river workers? He took the account book directly to the lobby of the state capital.
The powerful squire wants to seize the fertile land on the river embankment? He led people to drive ground stakes to their door.
Is the court falling into factional strife? He guarded the embankment and slapped everyone in the face with the stable flood season every year.
He did not seek to be crowned a prince or prime minister, but he only wanted the rivers to be clear and the sea to be clean and the people to be safe.
Unexpectedly, this thousand-mile embankment would eventually become the strongest barrier in troubled times, and also become the confidence for him to reverse the humiliation of Jingkang.
Note: Due to limitations of the platform system, the title of the book is displayed in the background as "The Dam Builders of the Song Dynasty: Going Against the Current to Save Jingkang". The official title of the book is based on the "River Engineering Counterattack: I Built Dams in the Northern Song Dynasty" marked on the cover and introduction.
