"After I Failed the Imperial Examination, My Hands Rubbed the Industrial Revolution" tells the story of Chen Mo, a doctor of engineering, who traveled through time and became a failed scholar in the Yu Dynasty. After being abandoned by his clan, he activated the "Civilization Blueprint System". Starting from a broken blacksmith shop, he used modern technology to leverage the entire ancient civilization.
Faced with the cold eyes of the powerful, the barriers to imperial examinations, and the humble status of craftsmen, he chose to respond with drawings and hammers - improving farm tools to make people live, inventing soap to do business, donating cement to control floods, and gaining a foothold step by step. When the Northern Canglang tribe came to the border with Western firearms and the Manchu Dynasty was helpless in civil and military affairs, he was ordered to build the first arsenal in the face of danger. Using flintlock guns and standardized production, he created a new firearms army that swept across the grasslands and defeated Feng Bo in the First World War.
However, due to his great achievements, he was promoted to Jiangnan Weaver secretly. Taking this opportunity, he founded the "Spark Special Zone" on the deserted beach at the mouth of the Yangtze River, implemented the eight-hour work system and patent laws, and brought together poor craftsmen from all over the world. Steam engines, railways, telegraphs, ironclads... The gears of the industrial revolution are turning loudly here. He used the telegraph network to control intelligence, used railways to dispatch the army, quelled the rebellion of the wealthy families, defeated the Western fleet, finally promoted the establishment of a dynasty and pushed civilization into the electric age with his own hands.
But just when he thought his mission was completed, the "white-robed national master" and super-era tactics that appeared on the grassland revealed a greater truth about the universe - this industrial revolution was actually a "stress test" for advanced civilization.
From a failed scholar to a prince, from the blacksmith shop to the sea of stars, this is a story about using technology to crush power and science to reshape civilization. When the first alien signal from deep space arrived, Chen Mo knew that the Yu Chao train would eventually sail to
