When the grassroots civil servant who died suddenly in 996 woke up in Zhu Yuanzhang's body, he, who was born in the history department, held the key to rewriting China's destiny at the bedside of Queen Ma in the fifteenth year of Hongwu. From rescuing worthy empresses to improving firearms, from establishing technical examinations to establishing a global tribute system, he used Excel thinking to reorganize the household yellow book, and used project management to reshape naval construction. However, at the peak of the empire, he discovered that the industrial revolution that was five hundred years ahead of schedule was breeding a more terrifying crisis - the Confucian-Legal dispute in the court turned into a patent bill game, the torrent of silver brought by the great voyage triggered a financial tsunami, and the Morse code flashing in the northern lights was leading the Ming Dynasty to an unknown battlefield beyond the stars. This is the ultimate collision between modern governance thinking and imperial power. When the glazed tiles of the Forbidden City reflect the outline of an armored ship, who can keep the Chinese fire at the fork in the road of civilization?
