Countless Societies

Sheng founded the country for several generations. The frontier troops were deprived of pay, the local government was in short supply, and the court was filled with quarrels among parties, but the famine was getting closer every year. When Lu Heng came to this era, he just wanted to live the life of his family first. As a result, less than four months after taking office, an official document came out from the government, requiring him to make up for the autumn grain of 4,000 shi within five days. Not in the warehouse. The people can no longer be conquered. Merchants cannot steal their food openly. If something goes wrong, he has to bear the responsibility. So Lu Heng gradually discovered that there was a very strange rule in this court—— Whoever is willing to take responsibility will have things fall on him; and when enough things happen, power will follow. To supplement a county's grain supply, grain houses, water customs and tax offices are needed. To save the victims of a disaster, warehouses, ships, trade routes and regiment training are needed. To defend a city requires military supplies, evangelism, military power, and lives. He made friends with people who could cooperate and used people who wanted to take advantage of him; he worked with honest officials and did business with corrupt officials; he plugged holes one after another for the court, and watched with his own eyes as new holes opened from deeper depths. One day, when the court finally wanted to take back those powers, Lu Heng discovered that—— Grain roads, trade routes, officials, the army, and the lives and deaths of more and more people have long been tied to his hands. At this point, the problem before him is no longer how to be a good official. Instead: Who is in charge of this world?