No System + History + Ming Dynasty + Farming + Technological Development + Hegemony + Decisive and Ruthless
Transmigrated to the late Ming Dynasty, he became the son of Song Yingxing.
Song Shiyi thought he had been handed a script about passing the imperial exams and becoming an official to bring honor to his father. Instead, a cannon exploded from the start, and he awakened innate divine strength.
Looking at his father, so poor from writing books that he could barely afford to eat, Song Shiyi decided to try a different way of life.
"Dad, the iron-smelting methods in Tiangong Kaiwu are way too backward. How about we revise them?"
"Dad, the gunpowder formula needs to be granulated. Rewrite this chapter."
Looking at the manuscript in his hands, expanded from the original three volumes to three hundred, Song Yingxing was on the verge of tears. "Son, how does this book keep getting thicker? You'd just finished 'Grain' when you added hybrid rice, and you'd just finished 'Metal Casting' when you came up with blast-furnace steelmaking... At this rate, will I ever finish it in my lifetime?"
Song Shiyi handed him a stack of blueprints and smiled. "Dad, don't worry. I haven't even started the chapter on 'Steam Power' yet."
The book was nowhere near finished, and the Ming Dynasty was on the verge of collapse.
Song Shiyi tossed aside his brush. "Dad, forget the imperial exams. Let's organize a militia!"
"If reason won't get through to them, then we'll use the truth, as in physics!"
Years later, Song Yingxing, honored as the "Sage of Industry," gazed at the global empire his son had conquered and asked with a trembling voice, "Son, didn't we agree we'd only be arms dealers?"
Standing aboard an ironclad warship, Song Shiyi replied, "Dad, this is called transforming the world through industrialization."
See how an engineer, together with his father and Liu Rushi, builds a magnificent industrial empire on the ruins of the late Ming Dynasty!
