A Commoner Pacifies the Nation: The First-Rank Mountains and Rivers Order

A construction-obsessed genius transmigrates into a chaotic age and finds himself from the start in charge of a crumbling border town. The town is full of the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled, while the barbarians outside are clamoring to slaughter everyone. Lu Changyuan draws his sword with a grin. “If we can’t beat them, we’ll build a tower. The load-bearing structure of these walls is all wrong. I’ll rebuild the whole thing!” Others wage war with soldiers; he relies on physics and civil engineering. Others play politics with schemes; he wins people’s hearts and builds real strength. From a common brewer to the defender of a besieged city, from a top-ranking chancellor who enters the capital to purge corrupt officials to a governor who resigns and returns to the frontier, he bows to no clay idols in the halls of power. He reveres only the land and its people. When the emperor grows suspicious and the court turns cold, he takes off his purple robes and puts on common clothes again. “I’m done with this office! I’ll protect the lives of the people!” A princess who is a master of both medicine and poison joins him, along with an arrogant, free-spirited swordsman. See how this commoner builds a Great Wall with a craftsman’s heart and protects the land with his passion!