Chuan Ming: from Waste to Peak

Shen Yuan, a low-level migrant worker in the 21st century, opened his eyes and traveled to the countryside of the Ming Dynasty in the second year of Chongzhen's reign. He became a lonely boy who was born with a frail body and was called "trash" by the whole village. It was a time of trouble, with Hou Jin watching in the north, and refugees everywhere in the south. Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes made the people breathless. After a locust plague and waterlogging, even food became a luxury. The original owner was beaten to death because he could not pay the grain tax, and what he inherited was a frail body, a leaky temple, and the contemptuous looks of the whole village. The label of "trash" was attached to him, and the desperate situation of survival was before his eyes, but Shen Yuan did not believe in fate. The tenacity of struggling at the bottom in his previous life became his armor after time travel. He started from the small things of chopping firewood to keep warm and looking for food to satisfy his hunger. With the knowledge of modern people and the "stubbornness" to refuse to admit defeat, he found a way out in the troubled times of hunger and cold. He helped the villagers solve problems in exchange for food rations, used simple methods to improve living conditions, and managed step by step in the cracks between refugees and tax collectors. No one knew that this young man who was once ridiculed as "you can't accomplish anything even if you starve to death" would eventually rely on his unyielding determination to start from the grassroots in the countryside, go through many hardships, and find his own way to the top in the turbulent Ming Dynasty.