Daming: a Good Start

Lin Mo traveled through the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and became a poor scholar. He owed fifty taels to the gambling house and his fiancée wanted to break off the engagement? Don't panic! The offline encyclopedia on your phone is still there! Soap, glass, newspapers, steam engines... I used the industrial revolution to change the Ming Dynasty! Princess Fu Wangfu? That's my partner! The most beautiful woman in Jiangnan? That's my dealer! Japanese pirates are attacking? Sorry, I invented the flintlock gun... This is a story about a poor scholar who used modern science to pretend in ancient times... Ah no, to benefit the people! This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.