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The night before Dong Zhuo's cavalry storms Luoyang.
The transmigrator Yuan Shao lights a candle in the Bohai prefectural office. Reflected in the bamboo slips in his hands are faint images from a modern military atlas.
The great heroes of the age have yet to notice that the benevolent noble scion of a family that has produced three high ministers in four generations already has the cold flame of industrial civilization burning in his eyes.
He recruits Guo Jia at Yingchuan Academy, intercepts Zhao Yun in a narrow alley in Changshan, refashions the Modao battle formations with an iron fist, and secretly establishes a network of salt-trading routes.
At court, he chats with the warlords over warm wine. Behind the scenes, he forges Ju Shou's remonstrances and Tian Feng's sinister schemes into a new intelligence network.
When Cao Cao raises the banner of “Serving the Son of Heaven” at Guandu, the Yuan family command banners already fly above fortresses bristling with repeating crossbows, while Jizhou's iron cavalry charges along cement roads. In this contest for the realm, recalculated through a modern lens, who is truly the one moving the pieces?
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