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

Qin Mubai, a modern elite soldier and avid fisherman, 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 bitter late-spring cold snap ravages the borderlands. Heavy snow seals off the mountains, cutting off supplies. The military households and common folk are short of food, and everyone is on the verge of starving to death, when Qin Mubai heads to the river to fish through the ice.

"Sir, are you looking for a wife? Give me just one fish, and I'll let my daughter marry you." A white-haired old man approaches Qin Mubai with an ingratiating grin. His daughter, the child of a former dynasty's great general, has fallen on hard times at the border and is on the verge of starving to death.

When the northern barbarians and Tatars launch a massive invasion, he improves military rations on the spot, pressing bran flour and bean flour into iron-hard cakes, each one enough to last three days. His troops march a hundred li a day and win one remarkable victory after another. He builds straw greenhouses amid the snow and grows bright green vegetables in the depths of winter. His improved repeating crossbows unleash such a storm of arrows that the barbarians tremble at the very thought of them.

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 reclaimed a million mu of farmland on the border. And when the emperor grows wary that his achievements might overshadow the throne, one hundred thousand fully armed cavalrymen are already shouting, "Our general should be King of Liaodong!"

"It's time for this world to learn a new way to live!"

With a single fishing rod, he stirs up the fate of the realm. See how this humble-born general fishes for dominion over thousands of miles of land!