Three modern people transmigrated to the Tang Dynasty during the Kaiyuan era, bringing with them crops and basic knowledge from the future. They threw themselves into invention and innovation, building a steam locomotive in twenty years and connecting the entire country by rail in just forty or fifty.
Chang’an, Luoyang, Guangzhou, Qiuci, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Taiyuan, Chengdu, and Youzhou were all linked by multiple routes, uniting the realm as one.
When Western Hu merchants, merchants from the Southern Seas, envoys from the Western Regions, and traders from every nation first laid eyes on these steel behemoths, they were so shocked they fell to their knees, believing them to be divine beasts from heaven.
When they saw with their own eyes that the trains could carry thousands of loads of goods and travel a thousand li in a single day, they were shaken to the core and utterly submitted to the might of the Great Tang.
The nations of the Southern Seas eagerly embraced Tang culture and honored the Great Tang as their suzerain.
The states of the Middle East joined along the way, following its example and adopting Tang institutions.
Far to the west, Europe remained mired in the darkness of religious rule, burning books and banning learning, reduced to a barbarous and uncivilized land.
Use technological firearms to deter the surrounding barbarians, and civilization to influence every nation.
This is the Great Tang’s steam age, and a definitive cultural victory that will make the whole world look up to it.
This is not a System novel. The System only appears at the beginning, then disappears.
