From Veterinarian to Horse Herder in the Great Han

Chu Yue, a 26-year-old equine surgeon at a horse racing hospital, wakes up after a nap to find himself transported to the borderlands of the Han Dynasty in 140 BC. He starts with a dying horse suffering from acute gastric dilation, three infertile mares, four copper coins, and a debt of ten strings of copper coins. A local rich young master declares: if he can get the mares pregnant within a month, the debt will be forgiven. If not, he must sign an indenture contract. Little does he know that in Chang'an, the newly enthroned Emperor Wu of Han is desperately short of warhorses—so much so that even the emperor cannot find four horses of the same color for his chariot, and generals and ministers have to ride oxcarts. Later, when Zhang Qian brings back heavenly horses from the Western Regions, his horse ranch becomes the first stop for fine horses entering Han; Wei Qing uses the warhorses he supplies to win the first battle against the Xiongnu at Longcheng; Huo Qubing, with the stirrups he forged, sweeps through the Qilian Mountains and achieves the fengshan ritual at Mount Langjuxu—all legends begin with that dying horse and his hands that once held a scalpel. This era needs good horses. And he happens to know how to raise them.