Mingfeng Cooking Smoke

When construction engineer Li Guang fell from the scaffolding, he opened his eyes to the dry fields of Yanzhou that had been in Chongzhen for ten years. Facing the cracked land, starving refugees and the imminent collapse of the Ming Dynasty, he took the memory of future generations and started an iron-blooded journey to rewrite history, starting from three acres of Susukino. He used dried sweet potatoes to unite the morale of the army, used dried braised beans to open up trade routes, and planted rye all over the wasteland at the head of the city. He invented a fire attack when the rogues besieged the city, and formed an elite left squadron in desperate situations. From cook to team leader, from grain road to battlefield, Li Guang believed that "food is the most important thing for the people" and turned delicious food into a weapon of power--pickled elbows to reward heroes, stewed to resolve grain shortages, and exchanged Shanxi merchants' cured beef recipe for weapons. Zhang Xianzhong's rogue cavalry, the military and political strife in Yanzhou Prefecture, and the competition for grain routes on the canal line. He rose step by step in the blood and fire, growing from an unknown soldier to a guerrilla general with a heavy army. When he looked down at the rye-covered fields at the top of the city of Jining and watched the people serve the soldiers with spicy soup, he finally understood: the salvation in this troubled world lies not in swords, guns and halberds, but in every wisp of smoke rising from cooking stoves. From Yanzhou to Yangzhou, from Jiangnan to Mobei, Li Guang used modern wisdom to reconstruct the military and political system of the Ming Dynasty, and used food diplomacy to connect business alliances from all over the world. When he stood on the ruins of the Forbidden City, looking at the rising sun in the east, he finally fulfilled the time traveler's ultimate vow - to let the smoke of Ming Dynasty become an imperial totem that never falls.