Technological Hegemony: from Border Town to Starry Sea

Zheng Chen, a modern gold medal fitter, accidentally received an electric shock while debugging a precision machine tool. When he opened his eyes, his soul penetrated a dying fireman in Xuanfu Town in the late Ming Dynasty. When he discovered that the vernier calipers and diamond files that he relied on for survival met the rusty muskets and crude forging techniques of this era, a firearms revolution that subverted the rules of cold weapons had quietly begun. In this troubled time when matchlocks were still considered "artifacts" and conservatives in the Ministry of Industry regarded technological improvements as "witchcraft", Zheng Chen relied on modern industrial knowledge to smelt scrap iron into high-carbon steel and used assembly line thinking to transform the arms workshop, from flintlock bolts to rifling processing, from fixed ammunition to water-cooled barrels, step by step pushing the accuracy and rate of fire of late Ming firearms to the limits of the era. He not only has to deal with the suspicion of the Jin Yiwei and the suppression of the Ministry of Industry, but also has to deal with the Xuanfu General Soldier and the Governor to build the small firearms bureau into a secret weapons arsenal against the Eight Banners cavalry. When traditional bows and horses and modern firearms collided fiercely at the foot of the Great Wall, Zheng Chen led the craftsmen to use tempered steel and the fire of wisdom to ignite industrial fires in the gaps of history. This is a legend of a fitter rewriting the rules of war with his hands. It is also a history of breakthrough in the troubled times of iron and blood, using technology as an edge to cut through the fog of the times.