Unemployed, I Became the Infrastructure King of the Great Ming

Shen Yan slaved for eight years as a real estate project manager, revised hundreds of construction blueprints, and weathered the industry's downturn—only to be laid off at 32. Squatting outside a job fair and gnawing on a boxed meal, he downed half a bottle of Erguotou in one go. When he opened his eyes again, he had fallen straight onto a construction site in Nanjing in the third year of the Hongwu era. With only half a signature pen in his pocket and still wearing his worn windbreaker, he became the lowest-ranking craftsman household in the Great Ming. Old officials from the Ministry of Works laughed at him for not knowing the rules; military officers from the border armies cursed his tricks as bizarre and worthless; the entire court waited to see how this "madman" would get himself killed. Until, with his modern civil engineering skills, he repaired the Yellow River breach in half a month that others couldn't plug in half a year, smelted wrought iron three times stronger using coke, forged new firearms that could pierce three layers of iron armor, drew up the Hundred Crafts Compendium that would become the prototype of the Yongle Encyclopedia, and built the Great Ming a ten-thousand-li border wall that would stand for five hundred years. Standing on the newly repaired city wall, Zhu Yuanzhang clapped him on the shoulder and laughed: "I, Old Zhu, have fought battles all my life, but I never thought the Great Ming's best fighter would be an infrastructure king who climbed up from a construction site." — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Unemployed, I Became the Infrastructure King of the Great Ming — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠