Shen Zhiyuan, a master's graduate in engineering, transmigrates into the role of a seventh-rank county magistrate in Great Zhou. He faces a shambles of a county plagued by drought, monopolized by local tyrants, and rotted by corruption. He has no interest in political schemes or power struggles. He believes in just one principle: "Let's calculate it first." With a cement formula, a slope of one-thousandth, and a staged construction method, he uses modern engineering to build a thirty-mile canal in Qingxi County. With a science and engineering department, a budget system, and a land survey method, he rises from technical bureaucrat to Grand Chancellor. From a cement-making county magistrate to the chief minister of the dynasty, from a small patch of land in Qingxi County to the three hundred prefectures of Great Zhou, he proves that getting the numbers right is more powerful than reading people's hearts. And Lin Wanqing, the businesswoman who always stands by his side, uses her ledgers and silver to pave the other half of his world. This is an engineer's rise through the ranks of government, and a history rewritten with cement and mathematics.
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