Zhu Huan, a modern engineer, accidentally traveled through time and became Zhu Houcong, the eight-year-old eldest son of Anlu in the Ming Dynasty. He was well aware of the disaster caused by the party strife in the Jiajing Dynasty, and he also understood the century-old humiliation suffered by China in later generations, so he used "childish ignorance" as a mask to hide his sharp and insignificant growth. In the name of "playing", he improved the curved shaft plow and made plant ash to fertilize the fields, easing the food shortage and rescuing his neighbors; he met Shen Qingci, the daughter of an imperial physician, and the two bonded over the technical resonance of "boiling to prevent epidemics" and "body temperature identification of diseases", secretly forming a new agricultural team, a medical team and a guard team, laying the foundation for the future.
With the collapse of Zhengde, Zhu Huan brought his hidden forces to Beijing to succeed him. Faced with the "Great Ceremony Discussion" led by Yang Tinghe to force him into the palace, he used movable type printing to pass on the basis of the ritual system, used the soap industry to gather financial power, and relied on the fusiliers to establish military power.
After taking power, Zhu Huan used modern systems to eliminate internal worries and used science and technology to empower the country. Shen Qing worked with him to fight against Japanese pirates and retreat from Mongolia.
Then, Zhu Huan pointed his sword overseas: he conquered Japan in the east to quell the war and civil war, and established a governor-general's office in Japan; he marched south to Nanyang, Ding'an, and Burma to establish a colonial division and expand resources; the fleet arrived in the Indian Ocean, defeated the British fleet, and signed a treaty of equality, curbing European colonial ambitions in advance. Finally, when he was forty-five years old, the Ming Dynasty became the global hegemon that connected Europe and Asia. All nations came to celebrate the prosperous era. Zhu Huan and Shen Qingci stood hand in hand on the city tower, looking at the criss-crossing railways and the shadow of the ocean sails. They completely rewrote the modern history of humiliation in China and created an eternal legend of a generation of wise kings and virtuous queens.
