I Became Su Dongpo: Farming and Building a Strong Nation in the Great Song

[Transmigration] + [Farming] + [Infrastructure Building] + [Political Intrigue] + [No System] + [Historical Power Fantasy]

Huangzhou, the fifth year of Yuanfeng. Su Shi has just finished writing the Cold Food Observance, and the whole city is saying he won't survive. People take the piece of calligraphy as his final work.

He doesn't die. He turns the paper over and draws a canal on the back.

A disgraced official, an idle post, no official seal, and eyes watching him from behind; outside the city lie a thousand mu of wasteland, while a handful of families control the grain prices within.

But the man in this body is now a modern engineer. He knows how to calculate water flow, formulate fertilizer, and draw plans. He also knows exactly how this dynasty will collapse in forty-five years.

He doubles Dongpo's crop yields. Wang Anshi gives him four words in Jinling. Sima Guang debates policy with him in the palace. The nine-year-old emperor asks him how to farm during a lecture at court.

Forty-five years later, when the cavalry rides south, standing in their way is an old ledger that began in Huangzhou.

A test field outside Huangzhou, a steel furnace beneath the walls of Bianjing, an improved blueprint on Wang Anshi's desk: he drags a dynasty plagued by poverty and weakness onto another path by sheer force.

Others transmigrate in pursuit of wealth and status. He transmigrates to keep a dynasty alive.

Farming is the method. Making the nation strong is what he truly wants.