The Han Wall

The Han Wall is a historical time-travel novel by the web novelist Pao Wang, serialized from December 21, 2014 to December 31, 2015, totaling about 1.74 million characters across 372 chapters. The story opens with a modern man, Liu Fu, who, after a car accident, travels back to the Guanghe era of the Eastern Han and wakes up in a Daoist temple in Luoyang, his body restored to that of a four-year-old child and himself addressed as "Marquis Shi," so that he must grow up all over again in the unfamiliar world of the late Han. He first gets to know the old Daoist Shi, Qingfeng, Mingyue, and the others at the temple, and works out which era he has landed in; later in Luoyang he meets Cao Cao (Mengde) and enters the tutelage of Cai Yong, using his modern knowledge to earn his first money and establish his own estate. As the Yellow Turban Rebellion breaks out, he is drawn into great events such as the Battle of Changshe, rising step by step from a small man struggling to survive to the center of the chessboard of a chaotic age. The title and the opening blurb of the work point to its appeal: "That year, Liu Bei was still a self-employed man worried about the country and the people; that year, Cao Cao was still an aspiring young man loyal to the Han; that year, Liu Fu arrived; and then... everything changed." The novel depicts the protagonist's life in ancient times in a light, bantering tone, emphasizing 'farming' accumulation—making money, founding schools, running businesses and building power—before gradually shifting to the Three Kingdoms' struggle for hegemony. It is a typical example of historical time travel combined with farming and hegemony, and its point is to use a modern mind to build one's own 'wall' in the late Han, bit by bit.