Reborn in 1880s America: From the Start, I Auctioned Off Chinese Laborers

In 1880, Empress Dowager Cixi formally took control of the imperial court, ushering the Great Qing into its final imperial reign.

That same year, thousands of miles away in the Americas, an industrial revolution that would change the world erupted in full force.

Ship after ship packed with Chinese laborers sailed for the West Coast. They built the miraculous Pacific Railroad with their blood and sweat, only to suffer abuse and oppression.

Qin Mu, reborn in the Americas, faced his fellow Chinese laborers being auctioned off into slavery and made his decision without hesitation.

He would establish a railway company and make every railroad in the Americas belong to Chinese laborers.

He was rewarded with phonograph technology, and the world's first record player appeared. From then on, stories of Chinese laborers spread across the Americas by word of mouth.

He would build a capitalist empire, fight magic with magic, and bring all of the Americas to heel before the Chinese laborers.

Many years later, warships and artillery blew open the gates of the Great Qing. Empress Dowager Cixi personally went to meet the ruler from the West, only to discover that the person holding the fate of the Great Qing in his hands was a young man from the East...

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