Pacifying the Mountains and Rivers

Half a life spent behind the plow and among books, half a life spent amid the schemes of power, half a life spent on the field of war. Su Heng was nothing more than a scholar of common birth, yet he steadied a realm on the verge of collapse, delivered its people from fire and flood, and brought an end to a century of chaos. From the ruins he raised a golden age—a land where those who till the soil may own their fields, where those who dwell may call their homes their own, where officials are honest and the people live in peace, and where the nation's fortune flourishes without end. This is the timeless legend of a scholar who never failed his mountains and rivers—and of a homeland that never failed its people.