Three Kingdoms: From Selling Straw Sandals to an Iron Tide

In the first year of the Jianning era, I was seven years old. My family was poor, and my mother and I made a living weaving mats and selling straw sandals. An accident left me on the brink of death, but it also placed a future AI knowledge base named “Turing” in my mind. “Turing” showed me a life of hardship that ended in failure. More than that, it showed me the suffering and glory this land would face over the next two thousand years: the lament of the Five Barbarians overrunning China, the blood and tears of a century of national humiliation, and, at last, the fiery rebirth of that red dragon. To hell with “restoring the Han dynasty”! In this life, I won't just win. I'll put this long-suffering nation at the summit of the world two thousand years ahead of schedule! They think I'm that “Uncle Emperor Liu” who can do nothing but cry? Sorry, I turned around and made my first fortune with a patent for ergonomically designed straw sandals. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are still acting like reckless brutes? I'll use the essential strategies of later generations' battles to train them into group army commanders and special operations experts. Cao Cao is still playing political games? My blast furnace has already produced its first batch of molten steel. Soon, an iron army armed to the teeth with horse lances and plate armor will show every warlord under heaven what a “technological advantage” means! “I, Liu Bei, want funding!” No, wait: “I, Liu Bei, will conquer the realm!” This time, I, Liu Bei, will turn the chaos at the end of the Han dynasty into the foundation of a brand-new industrial civilization!