Soldier Households in a Chaotic Era: I Trade a Carp for a Wife!

Qin Mubai, a modern special forces soldier and avid angler, transmigrates into the illegitimate son of a duke's household in the Great Qian Kingdom, only to be framed by his stepmother and exiled to a penal camp in Liaodong.

A late-spring cold snap ravages the borderlands. Heavy snow blocks the mountain passes, cutting off supplies. The military households and civilians are running out of food, and everyone is about to starve to death, so Qin Mubai goes ice fishing by the river.

"Soldier, are you looking for a wife? Just give me one fish, and I'll let my daughter marry you." The daughter of a former dynasty's great general has fallen on hard times at the border and is about to starve. An old man approaches Qin Mubai with a shameless grin and makes his offer.

When the barbarian Tartars launch a massive invasion, he improves the army's rations, pressing bran flour and bean powder into iron-hard cakes, each enough to last three days. His troops march a hundred li a day, and he earns one remarkable victory after another. He builds straw greenhouses amid the snow and grows fresh green vegetables in the dead of winter. His improved repeating crossbows rain arrows down on the barbarians, striking terror into their hearts.

When an imperial decree arrives stripping him of his title, he is using primitive methods to smelt steel and forge fire lances. When his stepmother sends assassins after him, he has already cultivated a million mu of farmland on the frontier. And when the emperor grows wary of his overwhelming influence, a hundred thousand fully armed cavalrymen are already shouting that their general should be crowned King of Liaodong!

It's time to find a new way to live in this world!

With a single fishing rod, he stirs up the fate of the realm. Watch as this humble-born military prodigy reels in a vast empire!