Ages-Long Rupture: Learning from History to Rebuild China

In the future, after the year 3000, humanity suffers a great decline. Technological civilization is completely lost, and society regresses to an age of city-states divided by wars fought with cold weapons. With history broken, people in later generations know nothing of the Qin Emperor or Emperor Wu of Han, and revere the fragmentary ruins of prehistory as divine revelations. The protagonist, Shen Mo, is a “time traveler” from the 21st century who arrives in the poorest city-state of the northern lands. He awakens the “Database of All Human History,” giving him knowledge not only of military strategies and battle formations from every dynasty, but also of lost agricultural techniques, metallurgy, and systems of governance and economics. Starting out as a destitute refugee dismissed as a “madman,” he strengthens his army with Shang Yang’s reforms and maneuvers through political rivalries with the strategies of Su Qin and Zhang Yi. Amid bloodless power struggles and bloody battles, he gradually wins over the descendants of famous generals, ends the age of chaos, and establishes a vast empire that blends the spirit of the Han and Tang dynasties with a vision of the future.