The Bastard Son in the Woodshed: Toppling the Marquis’s Estate With a Mineral Encyclopedia

[Illegitimate son + historical social drama + revenge + political intrigue + scheming protagonist + household and palace infighting + business warfare + power struggles + transmigration + mystery]

After transmigrating into Zhao Lin, a discarded son of a marquis’s household, he starts out lying in a woodshed, coughing blood and waiting to die.

His stepmother poisons him, his legitimate older brother bullies him, his father turns a cold eye, and his birth mother’s death is a mystery.

He has an encyclopedia of heavy industry and a map of mineral deposits, only to discover that soap, glass, white sugar, and refined salt are already commonplace.

In that case

he’ll open nitrate mines, make gunpowder, smelt steel, and manufacture bearings... He’ll build heavy industry.

The marquis’s household cuts off my path to survival? I’ll blow up their ancestral hall, tear off their roof, and dig up their ancestors’ graves!

The capital mocks me for my low birth? I’ll make every noble in the court line up to buy “Zhao bearings,” and even the princes will come to me for military supplies.

Then one day, the general’s daughter leaned close to his ear. “Your mother didn’t die of illness...”

Zhao Lin understood that there was more to all this than met the eye...

The military provisions stolen ten years ago, the fifty thousand new troops surrounded... It was all far more complicated than it seemed!