Gu Xing, a top student in the Materials Department of Lin'an University, fell into the abandoned mine of Wumeng Mountain in 1147 on a thunderstorm night and became the lowest "Kunlun slave".
His only capital: a solar panel with 18% power in his backpack, a 3D printing pen, a 64G offline encyclopedia - and an entire unexplored ancient world. Starting from the first drop of sulfuric acid smelted from green alum, he used indigenous blast furnaces to make steel, water turbines to generate electricity, chlorine gas to control epidemics, and steam ironclads to bombard the navy of the Jin Dynasty; he controlled half of the Southern Song Dynasty with a copper wire telegraph network, and reorganized the world's wealth with silver coins, gunpowder, and railways; in the gap between "Destiny" and "Science", he was crowned step by step as the Regent of Tiangong. But when he lit up the 10,000th electric lamp in Lin'an Imperial City, he discovered that the real enemy was not the golden man or the court, but the desire and backlash brought about by technology itself.
"If the fire of civilization will eventually burn the world, I will light it with my own hands and extinguish it with my own hands."
When the last steam ironclad sailed towards the unknown sea, Gu Xing engraved all the knowledge on the silver plate and disappeared into the rift of time and space.
In the Antarctic ice core of the 21st century, a piece of metal engraved with a QR code was dug out——
There is only one sentence above:
"Don't believe Gu Xing."
Hard core technology × power struggle × collision of civilizations
"Tiangong Empire" - an industrial revolution spanning a thousand years, a dark fable about ambition, redemption and the future.
Good book,,,,,