Gu Chang'an, a modern urban planner, transmigrated one day and became the least favored of the Great Liang dynasty's seven princes.
An imperial decree banished him to a desolate city on the northern frontier and ordered him to deliver fifty thousand shi of military grain within three months. But the city before him had crumbling walls, dry wells, and enough food in its granaries to feed eight hundred people for just seven days. The court was waiting for him to die, powerful families wanted to seize the city, and the steppe cavalry was closing in.
Everyone said the city was beyond saving.
Yet beneath the ruins, Gu Chang'an found an underground waterway that had been sealed for a century.
He built canals, reclaimed farmland, set up workshops, trained frontier troops, and opened trade routes...
Years later, when a million cavalrymen marched south, the court officials discovered to their horror that the disgraced prince they had cast to the frontier to die had already turned a desolate city into the greatest city in the land!
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