Smoke and Dust in Six Towns

At the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, on the eve of the Six Towns Uprising, a modern man who understood the history of the system passed through his soul and became the lowest-level garrison in Wuchuan Town. His name is Shitou - a nickname from the Six Towns. He can't be stepped on or frozen. The people in Wubao have been shouting for more than 20 years. Others stared at Rouran's torch in the snowy night. He was looking at why the lock on the granary was old. Others flatter the garrison master. He drew a map of the material flow in Wubao on birch bark. Others live by the knife - he lives by calculation. The land equalization system was perfect on paper, but it had long since changed beyond recognition in the six towns. The imperial military system eventually became the Sui and Tang Dynasties - it does not exist at this moment. He didn't bring any system, gunpowder, or archery skills. What he brings is an understanding of the operating logic of an era. Starting from the abandoned outlying Wubao, order was rebuilt inch by inch in the troubled times - integrating households into the people, dispatching across forts, refugees reclaiming wasteland, until the embryonic form of the military system. But knowledge is not everything. At least one-third of the "Book of Wei" is wrong. He thought he knew the future - but found that official history can be deceiving. He thought the system could solve everything—until the plan he designed indirectly killed the people he cared about most. He Bayue gave him a second name: Du - measure, calculate, travel. After He Buyue died, he named himself the last one: Shen An. Shen, a surname with a mark of shame, is kept. An - not ambition, but stability. From the snowy night in Wuchuan Town to the city walls of Chang'an City, from a wooden board nailed to the rammed earth wall to the institutional foundation of an empire - knowledge is sharper than a knife. Then retreat into the shadows. Cornerstones don't have to have names. But that night at the celebration banquet, everyone looked at him.