1980: the Last King of Nanyang Han Kingdom

Parallel World, 1980. In the troubled times of the late Qing Dynasty, countless Han people were unwilling to be humiliated and crossed the sea to go south. The ancestors of the Qi family used their supreme courage to carve out a piece of Han land in the chaotic and barbaric Southeast Asia and established the Nanyang Han Kingdom. After a hundred years of hard work, it has a land of 1.5 Million square kilometers and has raised 80 million pure-blood Han people. It is the only overseas Chinese dynasty that continues to be orthodox, and it only defends Han Zuo in the south. But times have changed, and the prosperous times are no longer there. The Cold War confrontation, the separation of powers, the layer-by-layer blockade by European and American forces, the colonial remnants of Britain and France, the domestic government system is rigid, the bureaucracy is corrupt, the armaments are backward, and the economy is rigid. The old king died of illness, and the nineteen-year-old young king hastily succeeded to the throne. He was plagued by internal and external troubles. The huge Nanyang Han Kingdom was on the verge of subjugation. It was the last dynasty destined to collapse in the eyes of the world. Qi Yuan, a modern person from 2025, succeeded to the throne through time travel and took over this inevitable mess. No system, no plug-ins, only forward-looking vision and overall understanding that are forty years ahead of the times. Seize all the trends of the Cold War era, break the Western blockade, expel foreign powers, and unify the Southeast Asian territories. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.