The Wanli Inferno

A transmigrator’s cruelest revenge isn’t changing dynasties. It’s giving civilization a flintlock.

He would forge steel into the very bones of the Great Ming, but first he burned through his own conscience.

This industrial revolution in the Wanli era used craftsmen’s blood for lubricant and scholar-officials’ bones for gears.

A top modern university graduate transmigrated into the late Ming, becoming Zhang Juzheng’s second son. But he arrived just as Zhang Juzheng’s reforms had failed and the reckoning was underway. He discovered the Ming dynasty was already a crumbling mansion. If reform couldn’t save China, then revolution would: “When the nine sacred vessels are shattered and reforged, the blade will cleave the Ming and usher in a new age.” Watch as the protagonist leads China, step by step, to the pinnacle of the world.