Building a City in the Late Tang

In the second year of Guangqi, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Shi An wakes up among the dead, becoming a refugee in Panshi City. The city has fallen, food is gone, and seven hundred people huddle in the ruins waiting to die. In his previous life, he had worked in engineering and knew something about repairing walls and managing water. Starting from breaking open the grain cellar behind the government office that was buried under a collapse, he digs canals, ramps up walls, and organizes refugees into teams. In chaotic times, reality prevails. Whoever can feed the starving will have them fight to the death. Qin Zongquan's soldiers came, and Liang family's schemes came, but none could crush it. By the year Zhu Wen prepared to receive the abdication and proclaim himself emperor, Shi An's troops had already reached the gates of Bianzhou. From Panshi City to Chang'an, he walked for twenty years. From seven hundred people waiting to die, to a city. From a city, to an army. From an army, to a new way of standing up the world. This world has been rotten for too long. Someone must build it anew. — Description from novelcodex.org