[History + Transmigration + Political Intrigue + No System + War + Logic]
Archaeologist Li Yuan is transported through time after being struck by electricity. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself in Handan.
Before him, nine-year-old Ying Zheng is being shoved into the mud by a young Zhao nobleman and forced to eat clods of dirt.
“Eat it! Your father, Ying Yiren, is nothing but a dog of Zhao!”
Li Yuan pulls out the only magnesium strip in his pocket and strikes a blinding spark. “Anyone from Zhao who dares insult the Son of Heaven must die!”
His magnesium fire is mistaken for the work of a fangshi, while the explosive bang of acetylene drives off Zhao soldiers!
Homemade penicillin saves Ying Zheng's life, and ice made with saltpeter earns enough food to keep the hostage residence alive.
From modifying a double-eared clay pot into a stove to measuring the world with bronze calipers;
from using the lever principle to overturn the carriage of a bully to using distilled liquor to win influence in the Zhao palace.
When a science student's formulas meet the flashing blades of the Warring States:
He teaches Ying Zheng how to solve the chicken-and-rabbit problem, and also how to use a sand table to plan the Battle of Changping.
But he does not know that the young dragon once forced to eat dirt has already glimpsed, in the magnesium fire he lit,
the blaze that will engulf the six realms.
Trapped in the hostage residence with no way out, Li Yuan holds half a moldy bun and grins:
“Construction projects? That's my specialty!”
See how a modern engineer uses beakers and levers to pave the way for the First Emperor to unite the realm from within the prison of the Warring States!
