After Time Travel, I Traveled Retrograde in the New Dynasty and Changed My Life

In 11 AD, Su Zhe, a doctor of history who specializes in the social and economic history of the Han Dynasty, traveled through time and became Wang Mang. The usurper who has been scolded for two thousand years, the foolish king who changed the system and ruined his country, and the loser who finally had his tongue cut out and cut into pieces. I know how to make a curved shaft plow, how to refine a blast furnace, how to divert water on a barrel wheel, and how to issue credit currency—anything I can pick out can crush this era. I know that in three years the locust plague will sweep through Guanzhong, in five years the Huns will knock down the border, in twelve years the Green Forest Army will invade Chang'an, and that I - the owner of this body - will be beheaded by a soldier named Du Wu on the platform. I have no choice. The powerful men in the court are watching, the Huns at the border are knocking at the gate, the national treasury is empty, and the people are scattered. The only thing I can rely on is the knowledge in my head that is two thousand years ahead of me. Since "restructuring from ancient times" doesn't work, let's move to the future. Curved shaft plow, blast furnace steel, compulsory education, cabinet system, credit currency - I want to bury the seeds of modern civilization one by one in the land of the first century AD. But every time history is changed, "time and space backlash" will be triggered. The inertia of history will find ways to get the plot back on track. The people I save will die unexpectedly, the decrees I issue will be misinterpreted as tyranny, and the subordinates I train will raise their daggers at critical moments. The Battle of Kunyang broke out early, with millions of enemy troops approaching the city, and Liu Xiu was still a student whom I conquered. Standing on the stage and looking down, I suddenly laughed. I am determined to take this retrograde path. This bullshit destiny, I changed it.