Three Kingdoms: Signing for a Steam-Powered Empire from the Start, I Conquer the World

Xiao Ran, a double doctorate in mechanical engineering and history, accidentally transmigrated to the late Eastern Han dynasty and awakened the Steam Hegemony System. From the start, he was stranded in the desperate wilds of Liaodong! He escaped with gunpowder, reclaimed farmland with the curved-plow, recruited refugees, and brought Zhao Yun into his fold. He won over the talented Cai Yan with “Quiet Night Thoughts,” tricked Lu Bu with clouds of chili smoke, and sparked a cultural revolution with improved papermaking!

Amid the war between the warlords, his technology left everyone else in the dust: repeating crossbow carts swept through the enemy at Hulao Pass, steam warships burned the Wu fleet at Red Cliffs, and hot-air balloons helped him scout and defeat his enemies at Guandu! He conquered beauties with poetry: Cai Yan compiled the “Huadian,” Sun Shangxiang led a women’s battalion, and the Xianbei princess Ayi Na offered horses and married for peace. He also transformed the age through farming and construction: an iron-and-steel Luoyang, a towering library, and seaports linking the four seas rose from the ground!

By the time the Roman delegation witnessed the thunder of cannons and the splendor of “Song of Everlasting Regret,” Xiao Ran had already set his sights on the whole world! From the iron cavalry of the grasslands to the elephant troops of Kushan, from the pirates of the South Seas to the Roman phalanxes, the world would eventually bow beneath the roar of the Huachao steam engine!