Great Power Strategy

In the eighteenth year of Guangxu's reign, half a century has passed since the First Opium War. At that time, the great eastern countries were still immersed in the afterglow of the setting sun of the Celestial Kingdom. The Westernization Movement led by Li Hongzhang and others allowed the Qing Dynasty to regain some of the confidence it had during the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong. But who would have thought that the Beiyang Navy, built with billions of taels of silver and the largest navy in Asia, would be defeated by Japan, an island country that has always had China as its division, only two years later. The fragility and vulnerability of the Qing Empire were completely exposed... 2014, The year of Jiawu. A veteran named Cheng Qian mysteriously disappeared in the Ailao Mountains of Yunnan... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.