Farming the Frontier: My Granaries Keep the Northern Border Fed

A graduate student from an agricultural university transmigrates into the household of a border garrison soldier. From the start, all he has is half a sack of moldy millet and a death warrant of a notice demanding a grain inspection in three months. With nothing but an earthen cellar and a shovel, he grows enough food on a barren, saline wasteland to feed an army of three hundred thousand.