Lin Yu was originally an ordinary graduate student in the history department. He accidentally got an electric shock because he stayed up late looking up information about the late Qing Dynasty. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a run-down village in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, great powers surrounded the country, the Qing Dynasty was in turmoil, opium was eroding the people, and unequal treaties were like shackles that bound the country.
With the help of modern knowledge, Lin Yu first promoted high-yielding crops and improved farming techniques in the villages to solve the problem of food and clothing. He became famous and was able to enter the court. He proposed comprehensive reform strategies to the Westernization faction, advocating not only learning from Western military technology, but also innovating education, developing industry, and improving the political system. Under his promotion, new schools emerged, cultivating many talents proficient in foreign languages, science and technology, and military affairs; modern factories abounded, and civilian industry flourished.
However, the reform touched the interests of conservatives, and conservatives and reformers clashed fiercely in the court. Lin Yu took Japan's Meiji Restoration as a lesson and argued hard based on reason. When the Sino-Japanese War broke out, the new navy he helped to establish turned the tide of the war with advanced tactics and improved artillery, allowing the Qing court to see the results of the reform and more people devoted themselves to the reform.
A few years later, the Eight-Power Allied Forces attempted to invade China again. At this time, the Qing Dynasty had undergone comprehensive reforms and its national power was strong. Under Lin Yu's plan, the well-equipped Qing army fought in coordination with the land and sea, which stunned the great powers and retreated in embarrassment after paying a heavy price. Lin Yu started by changing small villages, step by step rewriting the humiliating fate of the late Qing Dynasty, and allowed China to rise again on the world stage.
