In the third year of the Zhenguan era, locusts swarm across Guanzhong, and corpses litter the land for miles!
Li Fan, a top-tier engineering graduate with a double degree in history, transmigrates into a dying refugee. From the start, the difficulty is set to hell!
No System, no cheats, no supernatural powers. He has nothing but the hard-won modern knowledge etched into his bones to defy fate and change his life!
He fights locust plagues, refines salt, makes white sugar, produces cement, and builds roads, crushing the Zhenguan court with technology!
He happens upon Princess Changle Li Lizhi while she’s traveling incognito. They fall for each other at first sight and choose one another, promising to be together for life. Sweet romance with no angst or misunderstandings!
He takes on corrupt officials and local tyrants, stands up to the Five Surnames and Seven Clans, and breaks the century-old monopoly of aristocratic families, delivering relentless face-slapping satisfaction!
He upgrades weapons, develops gunpowder, defeats the Turks in the north, campaigns westward into the Western Regions, and marches east against Goguryeo, raising the Tang Dynasty to the top of the world through his own efforts!
From refugee to Baron of Jingyang County, then Duke of Weiguo and a prince sharing the emperor’s authority, he keeps up a thrilling tug-of-war with his father-in-law, both emperor and subject. There’s never a dull moment!
I’ll become a legend through knowledge, win Princess Changle’s heart, and build the greatest Zhenguan era in history with my own hands!
