Records of the Great Ming Dynasty

On a rainy night in the 17th year of Hongzhi, Yang Qian, a doctor of science and engineering, traveled through the Ming Dynasty and rescued Li Tang, the granddaughter of Li Dongyang, the chief minister of the cabinet, when his horse fell from a bridge. Trapped in the whirlpool of ancient power, he used "Mengxi Bi Tan" as a key to control the Yellow River through fluid mechanics, use probability theory to solve imperial examination fraud cases, and build flintlock guns to defeat the Tatar cavalry. His left hand is in charge of the innovative technology of Gewuyuan, and his right hand is dealing with Liu Jin's eunuchs and Ning Wang's rebels. He also translated Western learning with Li Tang, a talented scholar in Neo-Confucianism, and made firearms with Zhang Qingluo, a female general. From a doctorate in computer science to the minister of the Ministry of Industry, he improved the blast furnace steelmaking method, built a meteorological observation station, and planted the seeds of the Ming Dynasty's industrial revolution. However, he was surrounded and suppressed by Shanxi merchants and conservatives because of his steam engine blueprints. When Emperor Zhengde held a telescope and looked at the lunar craters, Yang Qi'an wrote a legend of scientific and technological rejuvenation of the country that blended gunpowder smoke and star map calculations in the storm of the court.