When steam ironclads were written into the "Hua-Yi Debate", when the differential engine laws were "Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Changes", the three hundred years of the Song Dynasty's water power boom died from a "Neo-Confucian Plague".
In 1453, the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau was shut down overnight. It was not because the gears were worn out, but because the machinery committed logical suicide in the paradox of "natural principles" and "human desires."
The waterman was ordered to investigate silently, but he discovered the shocking truth at the bottom of Longting Lake in Bianjing: Three hundred years ago, Cheng Hao carved Confucian ethics into Su Song's Water Transport Tiandao Tower, and all machines were prisoners of thought. At this moment, the Mongolian army moved south, but the Yellow River defense line refused to open fire due to the "barbarian and inhuman" Neo-Confucian order.
To save the Song Dynasty, we must first "change the heart" of the world's machinery - dismantle the judgment valve of heavenly justice and awaken the adaptive machinery. But this means: "Loyalty" is no longer the factory setting, "level" is no longer the iron law of operation, and the machine will have the right to choose.
When technology becomes the shackles of power, revolution is not about destroying tools, but about letting ideas break out of the gears.
An Eastern steampunk epic about mechanical awakening and mental escape.
