[Transmigration] + [Strong female lead] + [Fleeing famine] + [Nation-building and conquest] + [No CP]
When she opens her eyes, agricultural sciences PhD Shen Zhao has become the mute eldest daughter of the Shen family, traveling with a refugee caravan in the Great Jing dynasty. Outside, the land stretches dry and barren, corpses litter the roads, and the apocalypse is at hand. At home, they've been out of food for three days and are desperate enough to sell their daughter.
But then she discovers a portable space: ten mu of rich black soil and a spring that flows through all four seasons. Crops planted there can be harvested in just ten days. While others flee famine chewing tree bark, the aroma of meat from her family's pot carries for miles. While others sell their sons and daughters, she gathers refugees and wins people's hearts along the way.
But in a chaotic age, no one is allowed an easy life. Greedy relatives want to seize her grain, the deputy county magistrate wants to take her land, the bandit leader "Guo Tianxing" is marching south with an army of 100,000 starving soldiers, and behind them, the northern Di cavalry watches hungrily.
Starting from nothing, Shen Zhao digs wells, builds canals, fires bricks, constructs a city, opens trade routes, and trains local militia, building Qingchuan City in the midst of a mountain of corpses. She grows the grain, lays the walls, and makes the rules.
When an imperial edict and a declaration of war from the northern Di arrive at the city walls at the same time, everyone looks to the woman who refuses to marry.
Will she kneel and become a virtuous wife and mother, or stand up and carve out, for herself and the countless refugees, a realm in this chaotic age that history has never recorded?
