Iron-Blooded Great Tang: From Exiled Prince to Industrial Emperor

After transmigrating into the Tang Dynasty during the Zhenguan era, Li You becomes a useless prince despised by the emperor and exiled to Qizhou. He thinks he has no chance of ever wielding power, but unexpectedly binds himself to a Super Industrial System. Starting from nothing, he draws on knowledge far beyond his era and the System's support, earning his first fortune by making colored glass before secretly building an industrial base centuries ahead of its time.

Blast furnaces for steel, cement fortifications, flintlock guns, and makeshift cannons... Technologies a thousand years ahead of their time emerge one after another in his hands. He turns refugees into elite soldiers and gathers skilled artisans as trusted aides. With Qizhou as his base, Li You quietly amasses enough power to turn the world upside down.

The Turks invade south, and the nation faces a crisis. The court is at a loss. Li You leads his “Divine Machine Battalion” to Tong Pass with the force of a thunderbolt. Thunderous weapons rout the enemy, and one battle shakes the realm! From then on, the name of Supreme General Tian Ce resounds throughout the world, but it also draws deeper suspicion from his imperial father and stirs up hidden currents at court.

In public, he is a virtuous prince, loyal to his sovereign and devoted to reform. In secret, he forms a “Naval Battalion” and launches an expedition across the sea, plundering Japan's silver mines to fund his army. He advances the technology tree, builds steam-powered ironclads, develops telegraphy and rapid-fire guns, and makes the northern frontier as secure as an iron fortress. “Never again shall we send princesses to marry for peace! Never surrender territory! Never pay tribute! The emperor guards the frontier, and the sovereign dies with the realm!” His ringing oath is both an unyielding cry of Chinese spirit and a grand declaration of his own ambitions!

On one side is the struggle for imperial power, with fathers and sons suspicious of each other and brothers at odds. On the other are glorious military victories, sweeping across the barbarian tribes and expanding the realm by land and sea. And then there is the global tide of the Industrial Revolution, led by steel, steam, and telegraphy!

This is the story of an exiled prince who takes iron and fire as his ink and brush, and rewrites the fate of the Tang Dynasty.