This book is about how a man who knows all the answers lives in an era without answers. Before Shen Zhou crossed over, he was a UP owner and financial practitioner in the historical area. He had the coordinates of the entire Qing Dynasty in his mind: the longevity of Kangxi, the prosperity of Jiangnan, the rules of water transportation, and even the day when the Cao family fell. He thinks his greatest superpower is "knowing what's going to happen next." But when he really stepped into the mud of Jiangnan, carrying the skin of a sharecropper's son, and having a horse whip pointed at his nose by the Shen family's steward, he realized that those historical knowledge missed a key sentence: He knew the general trend, but he didn't know how many specific days and nights the people in the situation would have to endure. He didn't know if there would be enough rain next spring, he didn't know if the county magistrate's brother-in-law would be promoted to office this year, or how many pairs of eyes would be waiting to scratch the oil on the way to transport the grain he grew.
