In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign, Shen Zhiyuan, a graduate student in the history department, opened his eyes and became a fugitive from Liaodong. At that time, the overthrow of the Ming Dynasty was imminent, refugees took to the streets, vassal towns were divided, and the Western powers had set up artillery on the other side of the ocean.
Armed with modern knowledge, he started by promoting high-yielding rice seeds, and was unexpectedly regarded as the "savior of the world" by Prince Zhu Cihong. During his ten years of dormancy, he implemented the land equalization system to relieve the people's poverty, set up practical departments to train talents, built steam engines to start industry, and led the navy to launch new airlines. At the Palace of Supreme Harmony, he amazed the European envoys with the power of the "Jiaolong-class" battleships;
However, the New Deal is like a knife, cutting away the privileges of nobles, and also attracting hidden arrows: Dongchang Tiqi forged counter-proposals, Junggar scimitars stained with blood and loyal souls, and Japanese samurai hidden blades in Nagasaki Station. At the moment when his successor Chen Jingxing died for his country, Shen Zhiyuan understood: ZTE was never the work of one generation.
When he recovered from his illness and entrusted his hope to the young prince, the dragon flag of the Ming Dynasty was already facing the dawn of the steam age, thrust into the Australian wilderness and the American coast - this time, history will not repeat itself, and China will sail into a new world with iron ships and civilization.
