An Engineer in the Tang Dynasty

Drunk beneath the Tang moon, clouds and mist like a painted scene; Chang’an’s glamour, the splendor of a golden age.

Qin Tian, a man from the modern era, is struck by lightning during a thunderstorm. His soul unexpectedly transmigrates to the Tang Dynasty during the Zhenguan era, where he becomes a young man feared by Chang’an’s spoiled young nobles and dreaded by the great clans, including the Five Surnames and Seven Great Clans and the Jiangnan aristocracy.

With his talent, he wins everyone’s admiration and earns the emperor’s favor, even marrying a princess. He also brings inventions from later generations to life in the Tang Dynasty, ushering in an industrial powerhouse. Faced with locust plagues and smallpox, he remains calm in a crisis. The Tang Dynasty also establishes departments for commerce and industry, urban management, and other areas in Chang’an’s Jingzhao Prefecture. Thanks to his arrival and the later advent of the “electric light” and “steam” eras, the prosperous Tang Dynasty launches an industrial revolution and enters an age of unprecedented flourishing.

For decades, Chang’an thrives in splendor, and the golden age of the Tang Dynasty unfolds...