Don't Mess With That Laborer: His Workers' Guild Is Full of Tough Guys

Transmigrated into the body of a convict forced laborer in the Great Yu Dynasty, about to be buried alive in a mudslide, Lu Zhao has nothing but bare walls and not a coin to his name. His only wife is being forced by a local bully to sell herself to pay off a debt. Everyone expects his family to die a miserable death, but from discarded limestone and mine slag, Lu Zhao makes a miraculous mortar that sets underwater in half an incense stick!

Others build dikes with their lives; he builds them with his brains. Others defend their stockades with wooden fences; he builds a city with concrete and uses giant crossbows to control the river. When the grain transport gang comes to seize his wife, he lines up eight veteran boatmen armed with heavy iron bars. When local gentry cut off his iron supplies, he uses the law to turn around and confiscate their estate. When 300 heavily armored bandits surround him by land and water, he lures them into a trap with mud-armored ships, then blows them up underwater and smashes through their lines with cavalry. The battle leaves their leader trembling in fear!

When floodwaters burst through the dike and poisonous giant alligators surround the stockade, he uses quicklime to melt through the waves and high-pressure grouting to seal the river. When a privileged young hothead abuses his power to bully the people, Lu Zhao breaks his sword in public and lays down the rules. When the authorities seal off the city and abandon its people, he tears up the evacuation order and opens the granaries to welcome everyone!

When Lu Zhao leads his people into the dead city, Panlong Stockade behind him is no longer a workshop where anyone can prey on them. Su Wanqing, armored and armed with a blade, leads the stockade’s craftsmen, women, and children through the gates and cries, “Kill the bandits and bring our master home!”

[Infrastructure and conquest] + [Cool-headed strategy] + [A cast of tough survivors] + [Surviving in chaotic times]