Lin Gong's Reinvention

In an accident, contemporary historian Lin Mo's soul traveled through the eighteenth year of Daoguang and became Lin Zexu, who was ordered to go to Guangdong to ban smoking. In front of him was the devastation of opium poisoning for thousands of miles, and behind him was the serious illness of the Qing court's long-standing abuses. In his heart, he held the humiliation, blood and tears of the entire nation in the next hundred years. As "the first person to see the world with open eyes", Lin Zexu in history eventually died of hatred due to the limitations of the times. But this time, with a modern historical vision and innovative ideas, he knew that behind the destruction of opium in Humen was the threat of strong ships and guns, and he also understood that seclusion was destined to perish. He not only wanted to gain a foothold as "Lin Zexu" and complete the anti-smoking mission amidst the constraints of the liberalists and the cunning of British businessmen, but he also wanted to break the historical inertia - secretly imitating Western artillery, forming a new navy, cultivating talents who were familiar with foreign affairs, and even trying to leverage the decaying court and sow the seeds of self-improvement before the war broke out. When the war of the Opium War came as expected, he was no longer the helpless pioneer. The gunfire of offshore defense shattered the myth of "the invincibility of the British army", and the pragmatic diplomatic attempt challenged the dream of "a kingdom in heaven"! This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.