Programmer Zhou Yu pulls an all-nighter and dies suddenly, only to wake up as the son of a down-on-his-luck minor official in Chang'an during the Zhenguan era.
From the start, everything goes wrong: he is betrothed to Princess Changle, and the entire court is waiting to laugh at him.
Looking at the loopholes in the Tang tax system, the bottlenecks in grain transport, and the stalemate on the frontier, Zhou Yu's professional instincts kick in.
Other men become imperial sons-in-law to climb the social ladder. He becomes one to overhaul the System.
The Six Ministries? First, let's draw a flowchart and optimize things. The Turks are invading? Time to learn operations research.
Li Lizhi is worried about the people's livelihoods? Her husband will build her a data model. Li Jing's daughter wants to join her father on campaign? She'd better learn logistics management first.
From a laughingstock despised by the entire court to the Tang dynasty's true “architect,” this imperial son-in-law takes a pretty unconventional approach.
