[Transmigration + technology tree + passionate conquest]
An outstanding mechanical engineer transmigrates into the body of a low-ranking soldier on the late Ming frontier. With only the resources at hand, he rises step by step from the most insignificant recruit to become a pillar of the Ming dynasty.
Amid the smoke of battle, Chen Polu looks at the granulated gunpowder he refined using crude methods, then kicks over the shoddy weapons sent by the Ministry of Works. “The Eight Banners cavalry? I’ll use black powder ratios to teach you bastards how to die!”
While the Western-style cannons are still gathering dust in Macao Harbor, his “granulated gunpowder and iron-shot canister rounds” have already blasted open the gates of Shenyang.
While the Donglin faction is busy skimming soldiers’ pay, his assembly-line powder mill is using The Exploitation of the Works of Nature to produce nitroglycerin.
Chongzhen trembles as he holds The Military Industry Compendium. “My dear subject... Can this ‘Maxim gun’ blueprint really mow down Huangtaiji?”
Lin Sui wipes the rifling of his flintlock and sneers. “Your Majesty, the ones you should worry about are those Jianzhou savages still using bows and arrows...”
“After all, I’ve even added a little arsenic purified from The Barefoot Doctor’s Manual to my gunpowder formula!”
