Season 1 of Zhang Mu's Comeback: Shrimp Travels to the Tang Dynasty. At the dawn of the Tang Dynasty, in the first year of the Zhenguan era, Zhang Mu travels through time and assumes the alias Zhang Xiaren. He opens a white sugar shop and a liquor shop in Chang'an. With no power, influence, or system to help him, he relies on his knowledge of the future to refine white sugar and brew high-proof liquor. He builds roads for the people of his hometown and helps his father-in-law suppress the powerful aristocratic clans. After winning the favor of Li Shimin, he is granted the noble title of County Baron of the Tang Dynasty.