In the 21st year of Guangxu's reign, when the bad news about the compensation for Taiwan's cessation of power in the Treaty of Shimonoseki reached Fuzhou Port, warehouse clerk Yang Shuo suddenly woke up in the heavy rain. This 21st century military engineer turned out to be the son of an overseas Chinese businessman who returned from Southeast Asia. Looking at the fluttering yellow dragon flag at the Thirteenth Line Pier, he clutched the pistol blueprint hidden in his arms, and met three strange people in the teahouse - the Jianghu heroine Bai Shuanghua who is good at Emei thorn, the overseas student Lin Siyuan who knows the telegraph code, and the declining clan member Zai Lan who can enter and exit the flag camp.
Starting from secretly helping Sheng Xuanhuai to seize the Belgian railway rights, Yang Shuo used the Fuzhou Shipping Bureau as a base to build a secret ordnance factory under the cover of Westernization. He helped Kang Youwei improve the "Book of Datong", but led the reformers to more radical armed changes; he supported Zhang Jian to establish a cotton mill, but secretly trained new marines in Nantong. When the Boxer Rebellion swept through Zhili, this force that had been dormant for seven years landed in Tianjin under the name of the "Nanyang Merchant Group" and used Maxim machine guns to rewrite the war situation of the Eight-Power Allied Forces.
When gunshots were fired in Wuchang in the year of 1911, Yang Shuo had already taken control of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and was instigating rebellion in the six towns of Beiyang. He held on to the mottled palace wall of the Forbidden City, looked at the envoys from various countries kneeling in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and remembered the last reminder of the system that traveled through that night: "Changing 1895 is the time singularity that reconstructs the world." At this moment, the Yellow Dragon Flag was slowly lowered, and the red-bottomed Golden Dragon Flag, accompanied by the armored whistle of the Fujian ship, was crossing the morning fog of Malacca.