Engineer Chen Yue is transported through time after a landslide and awakens in the seventh year of the Tianqi reign as a dying young man in Chen Family Village, Shuntian Prefecture.
He opens his eyes to a home stripped bare and sees starving corpses everywhere. Eunuchs and their allies wreak havoc at court, the Later Jin menace the border, refugees rise across the Central Plains, and the Great Ming teeters on the brink of collapse.
He has no peerless martial arts or overwhelming political cunning, only a mind full of engineering knowledge three centuries ahead of its time.
He makes cement and repairs irrigation canals, turning wasteland into granaries and giving refugees a place to settle. He builds firearms and bastioned forts, shattering the Jurchen cavalry and securing the border. He constructs highways and opens up maritime trade, filling the treasury with silver and sending merchants across the empire and overseas.
From a destitute beggar to a high-ranking court official and finally emperor, Chen Yue takes on the eunuch faction, reforms officialdom, crushes rebel bands, and expands westward. Through sheer force of will, he transforms the crumbling Great Ming into a Han Empire that commands awe across the globe.
Engineering saves the nation, hard-core power struggles decide the realm. Watch how one engineer rebuilds the land and forges an unparalleled legacy!
