Border Pass Laborer: The Court Abandoned the City, So I Built the World’s Number One Pass

On the day the imperial court abandoned the city, Cheng Ye, a laborer who had been repairing the city walls, was beaten to death by a foreman. When he opened his eyes again, a modern engineer who built roads and bridges had taken over his body.

Before the garrison withdrew, they pressed a bronze seal into his hands. "The imperial court doesn't want this city anymore. Do you?"

"If the imperial court doesn't want it, I do."

The Yan cavalry chased him to the river? He hung beneath the bridge and broke its central span. The cavalrymen and their horses plunged into the river.

Eight thousand Yan troops spent seven days rebuilding the bridge? You take seven days. I'll break it in half a day.

The city ran out of salt? He scraped salty earth from the base of the wall and boiled it down into salt.

The breach on the western slope kept collapsing no matter how often they packed it? He flooded it with water, and overnight it froze into an icy slope. When the Yan cavalry charged, their horses slipped and fell to their knees.

By the time everyone along the river called this city the greatest pass under heaven, the imperial court had crossed four counties west of the river off the records, planning to trade them to the Yan for peace.

Cheng Ye replied with just one sentence: "The records are with the Ministry of War. The people are in my census register."