Xu family's eldest miss Xu Mancang loves land like her own life. With eight hundred qing of fertile fields nearing the autumn harvest, she suddenly faces a severe labor shortage. With a single letter, she summons her top-scholar fiancé, and by coaxing and tricking brings in the young marquis and gifted scholars of the Imperial Academy. Soon, officials from the Ministry of Revenue, Ministry of War, and even all six ministries are out in the fields wielding sickles, while the Emperor himself—traveling in disguise—sits down to help her crunch numbers. Going from competing against one another to working together for a rush harvest, the farmers unite and refuse to be squeezed by grain merchants anymore. Based on this, the court revises grain production figures, promotes farming tools, and bestows an imperial plaque reading "Valuing Agriculture and Rooting in the Fundamental." Labor is the most glorious, sweat trades for a bumper harvest; a single paddy field warms half the imperial court.