[Special forces soldier in an ancient setting]+ [No taking things lying down]+ [Action from start to finish]+ [Political intrigue and mind games]+ [Fierce struggle for supremacy]+ [Building from the ground up]
“Report! The magistrate fled with the funds last night!”
“Report! Nomad scouts have been spotted thirty miles outside the city. A thousand cavalry will arrive tomorrow!”
In the seventeenth year of Yuanhe under the Great Yuan, Lu Chen, an elite special forces soldier with a master's degree in agronomy, opens his eyes to find himself a low-ranking county commandant in the poorest county on the frontier.
Looking at the three hundred old soldiers in front of him, gaunt and limping, Lu Chen doesn't panic at all. He gives his first order: “Don't run. Come farm with me first.”
The whole county thinks he's lost his mind. But a month later, modern composting and seed-selection techniques pay off. The harvest doubles. People are starving in neighboring counties, while the people of Langkou County eat their fill.
A thousand enemy cavalry are charging? Using special forces tactics, Lu Chen digs trenches and lays oil traps. His three hundred old soldiers cut down the thousand nomad riders until they're crying for their mothers!
You mock me for being poor? My granaries are overflowing, and I'm richer than the empire.
You mock me for holding a low rank? I'll fight my way through the enemy's strongholds, rising from county commandant to regional governor!
Then the empire falls into chaos, and a powerful minister forges an imperial decree to strip him of his troops and leave him to die.
Lu Chen dons heavy armor and draws his saber. Behind him stand three hundred thousand cavalry, with cannons lined up all around.
“You think one imperial decree can take my troops away?”
“If you can't rule this land, then I'll take over!”
