[Transmigration, management, infrastructure building, political scheming, one heroine, two powerful leads]
The day Gu Changan transmigrates into the body of the poorest postmaster in the Great Xia dynasty, Qiyun Relay Station is on the verge of being shut down: three sick horses, seven old soldiers, and a debt of 320 taels on the books.
Then a bloodstained emergency dispatch, carried eight hundred li, comes crashing through the door. Tianmen Pass is about to run out of grain. If four thousand shi of army provisions aren't delivered on schedule, everyone at the station will be executed.
But the official road is closed, the convoy has disappeared, and the relay stations along the route have already been emptied one by one. Everyone calls it a natural disaster, but from several grain ledgers with altered dates, Gu Changan spots a hand clamped around the throat of Great Xia.
There is no System, and no reinforcements are coming. He can only use broken carts, old roads, and a sheet of debt as his bargaining chips, turning three hundred li of dead road into a series of passable routes.
Princess Xiao Mingyue pushes the orders for coordinating the twelve relay stations of Beiling across the table to him:
“Reconnect the broken roads for me, and I'll shield you from the knives in court.”
Starting at Qiyun Relay Station, Gu Changan assembles convoys, builds granary towns, opens trade routes, and takes charge of military dispatches. The road he reconnects gradually becomes a lifeline no one in the realm can afford to avoid.
Years later, the princes close the roads and the imperial city runs out of food. Xiao Mingyue places the imperial seal in his hands:
“This time, I'm wagering the Great Xia realm on you.”
Gu Changan takes the seal and replies with just one sentence:
“Then let's reconnect this broken realm once more.”
