In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the alchemist Wang Yan, carrying a soul from the 21st century, arrived in Beijing, which was about to be destroyed.
This is the worst era: rogue bandits knocking on the pass, Qing troops entering the fortress, kings dying for their country, and Chinese generals sinking.
This is also the best of times: ignorant superstitions have not yet been eradicated, and primitive industry has yet to awaken.
Use science as your sword and industry as your shield. He wants to build an unprecedented empire on which the sun never sets for China on the ruins of this apocalyptic world!