Story: nothing out of ordinary but entertaining
The Plough Department of Song Dynasty was actually a surprise I started it without much expectations.
I don't think people should expect the super plottwists or deep story lines, but after all it's still very entertaining and doing pretty good job with the genre mix: historical, detective, comedy, mystery etc. For this lower budget segment with this kind of genre, I think the script writing is one of the better ones for sure to me. I especially like the comedy scenes here.

Acting/Cast: pretty good
I think the actors were all casted well especially the main ones, which are fitting their roles very well. I especially like Taisui, YaoGuang, SuiFeng and Yaoguang's dad. The acting is very decent and I'm satisfied.

Overall: I think one of the dramas, where you just looking for entertaining without too much deepness/thoughts, but still some quality then I'd definitely recommend this drama. The end actually seems to left an opening for a future second season, which I'm already looking forward for.