Reviving the Great Song: I Launch an Industrial Revolution in Qiongzhou

In 1297 AD, the Southern Song realm fell in its entirety.

The patriotic general Lu Xiufu leapt off a cliff with the young emperor on his back, declaring the end of the Song Dynasty.

The Mongol cavalry claimed the Central Plains.

Qiongzhou, present-day Hainan, lay offshore and isolated from the rest of the world, and so escaped the calamity.

Zhao Ziting transmigrates as the Prince of Qiongzhou.

He binds himself to the Industrial Revolution System.

Quest acquired: Lead Qiongzhou through an industrial revolution!

Divine artifact acquired: Industrial Blueprint Scroll! It can generate production diagrams for every industrial product!

"I shall lead the Song Dynasty's last province through an industrial revolution!"

"One day, the mechanized armies of the Great Song will land on our ancestral soil with the might of gods, and avenge our humiliation!"

Step one: transform the relations of production!

The people are assigned trades and set to work collectively.

The working class takes the stage of history...

Tens of thousands work as one, developing coal mines and smelting iron.

Steam engines, steamships, automobiles, and more soon follow...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.