The Great Yan Works: A No-Nonsense Revolution by the Marquis's Legitimate Heir

Lin Yan, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, is electrocuted and transported into the body of Xiao Jingyuan, the good-for-nothing legitimate son of the Marquis of Yongning. From the start, he is saddled with gambling debts, offends Li Xuan, a wastrel from the Crown Prince's faction, and becomes a laughingstock in the capital. Armed with modern engineering knowledge, he uses a rotating center-of-gravity device to humiliate the wastrels and a lever-operated waterwheel to amaze the court. Turning technology into a weapon, he takes on the powerful and breaks through three seemingly unsolvable crises: flooding, famine, and border threats. With his legitimate elder brother backing him at court and a powerful alliance with the talented censor Liu Qingmei, he rises from workshop owner to head of the Imperial Works Bureau. He casts cannons, builds railways that link the realm, and creates an industrial system. His tangible achievements leave everyone who looked down on him eating their words. The good-for-nothing makes a stunning comeback and becomes the founder of the dynasty's industrialization. Face-slapping, promotions, and military strength deliver one satisfying moment after another, with no saintly heroine or contrived drama! (The outline has been heavily revised, and the pacing is faster.)