Lin Mo, an emergency doctor, assumes the role of Zhu Xiongying, the eight-year-old grandson of Hongwu who was about to die of illness fifteen years ago.
Faced with a double countdown to death - Empress Ma was critically ill and herself was about to contract smallpox, he raised the scalpel of modern medicine:
He used the "germ theory" to save the queen, and used the method of variolation to save himself. Under Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, he built a palace, developed science and technology, and changed the destiny of the country.
From Kunning Palace to Fengtian Palace, from Imperial Hospital to the Northern Expeditionary Army, he used medicine boxes and microscopes to carve out a way out in the Hongwu Dynasty.
When the fusillade array roared in the Kyoto plains, and when the steam engines sounded outside the Forbidden City - this emperor's eldest grandson, who should have died in infancy, was creating a new Ming Dynasty in which the sun never sets.
The surgeon traveled back to the early Ming Dynasty and used a scalpel and science to perform a major operation on Ming Dynasty to bring him back to life.
Reader comments
It's well written, the characters are delicately drawn, and they're not brainless.
It's well written, the characters are delicately drawn, and they're not brainless.