Steampunk Ming Dynasty: I Start a Revolution in Another World

[Soul Transmigration + Industrial Revolution + Mass Line + Soviet-Style + No System + No Magic + Starting from Scratch]

What if the Great Ming had never fallen? See how two different souls from two different eras change the world in different ways.

The seventeenth year of Chongzhen, or Kaiyuan 4323 (the Yellow Emperor Era), known to Westerners as 1644 AD.

Prince Lu, Zhu Changfang, arrived in his loyal city of Hangzhou.

The following year, the Qing army crossed the river, and Prince Fu, Zhu Yousong, abandoned the country and fled.

Zhu Changfang, posthumously known as Ming Taizu Wu, the Emperor Ding Tianping Dao Gongren Hongfa Gangyi Tongwen Shenwu Guangde Hongwei, took up the banner of the Great Ming. He repelled the Qing troops at Hangzhou in a victory known to history as the “Great Victory at Hangzhou.”

For twenty years, Taizu Wu reformed officials and modernized weapons, while putting down rebels and subduing powerful vassal lords, eventually reclaiming the Central Plains.

Thus the Great Ming once again opened the Nine Heavens. Wherever the sun and moon shone, all nations came to pay tribute.

Kaiyuan 4360, 1663 AD, the eighteenth year of Longwu.

Huang Lüzhuang, a citizen of the Ming, invented the world’s first steam engine, known as the “Huang Steam Engine.”

The Taishang Huang of the Ming Empire, Zhu Changfang, personally issued an edict ennobling him as the hereditary Steam Earl.

Thereby, the Ming Empire ushered in the world’s First Industrial Revolution, and the distance between nations grew ever smaller.

Steam, steel, war, death. These were the defining themes of the 45th century.

In the middle of the 45th century, Zheng Yuan of the Ming became the first person to sail around the world. Hailed as the world’s first long-distance ocean navigator, he was ennobled as the Ocean Earl.

At the end of the 45th century, Eastern and Western civilizations clashed for the first time in the Little Western Ocean. The two sides fought a century-long war over the Indian peninsula, known as the “First East-West War,” or the “First World War.”