On the summer night of 1934, four old friends who had graduated from college ten years ago encountered a car accident on their way back from a party and traveled back to the war-torn old China. They entered the folds of history with modern knowledge, but found that they were not omniscient and omnipotent gods - the official document routines of county party committee officials were vulnerable to factional strife, information tactics became a joke on battlefields lacking radios, standardized management ran into the blood-stained fingers of child labor, and precision lathes were ridiculed by the inferior steel of the Republic of China.
There is no intervention from the Space and Time Administration, no redemption from Goldfinger, just four ordinary people torn apart by the torrent of the times. They use their professional knowledge to carve cracks in the iron wall of history, but they don't know whether what shines through is the dawn or the deeper darkness. When the bell rang in 1949, the "Tolerance Coordination Table", "Tactics Manual" and "Cost Accounting Book" left behind by the time travellers have become mysteries sealed in the technical archives of the new regime - and these ink marks, lost by the years, are silently telling the glory and betrayal, perseverance and compromise of intellectuals in the great era.
Some people want to strangle the throat of history, some want to light a prairie fire, and even more people are looking for a way to rebirth their broken homes in the torrent of steel.
This is a steel epic that recasts modern China.
The fate of the three time travellers and hundreds of millions of living beings are forged and collided on the anvil of history. When the gunfire of 1937 will finally sound, can they find a fulcrum in the torrent, or will they become a new batch of sacrifices on the altar of the times?
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The author's writing style is sophisticated, but it should be noted that this writing style is not conducive to online writing. I think it is more suitable for physical book reading.
The author's writing style is sophisticated, but it should be noted that this writing style is not conducive to online writing. I think it is more suitable for physical book reading.