I Became the Infrastructure King of the Great Ming

Shen Yan slaved away 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 at the entrance of a job fair, 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 left in his pocket and still wearing his worn-out windbreaker, he became the lowest-ranking craftsman 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 harmful, and the entire court waited to see how this "madman" would get himself killed. Until, using modern civil engineering skills, he repaired the Yellow River breach that others couldn't block in half a year within half a month, smelted pig iron with triple strength using coke, forged new firearms that could pierce three layers of iron armor, drew up the Compendium of All Crafts that was the prototype of the Yongle Encyclopedia, and built the Great Ming a ten-thousand-li border wall that would stand for five hundred years. Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the newly repaired city wall, patted 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: I Became the Infrastructure King of the Great Ming — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠