The year is 1600, the twenty-eighth year of the Wanli reign. The Ming dynasty is already tottering on the brink of collapse. Although it won the Ningxia and Korean campaigns in the preceding years, the Manchus beyond the frontier are biding their time, while Yang Yinglong has launched a rebellion in the southwest. One war after another is slowly draining away the Ming dynasty's last reserves of fortune.
Wu Haihong transmigrates to this era with a sailing battleship and a quest System. He is determined to carve out a domain of his own with this fortress at sea, not save the Ming dynasty, which is already terminally ill.
Reclaiming land, farming, bringing in settlers, developing maritime trade, and raiding Japanese pirates and Red-Haired Barbarians: it all begins on Xiyu Island in Penghu...
He vows to blast his way into a new world with the battleship's mighty cannons!
This novel and its characters are purely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
Don't doubt it, it has been cut for three years.