When the tide falls on the cliff, I am an abandoned son. There are powerful and powerful people inside who are exploiting the country, and there are barbarians around outside. The army is full of abuses, and the poison eats away at the bones.
However, I have the blueprint of the musket in my hand, and the latitude and longitude of the sea power in my chest. Copy the powerful, train new armies, collect barbarians, and suppress pirates. Use Qiongzhou's rare treasures to pry open the Western trade route, and use exotic iron fire to recast the backbone of the South China Sea.
The imperial court regarded me as a chess piece, the rebels derided me as a scabies, and foreigners were willing to sell me for a price. They don't know that what I have cracked is not only the waves, but also the iron curtain of the old era.
On the shores of the South China Sea, isolated islands rise. I will use cannon fire and sail shadow to carve out my sea and my country in the gap where the empire is about to collapse and the great powers are coveting it.