Rise of the Maritime Frontier

Luzon, 1624.

The Spanish colonists have sharpened their knives, and the next massacre of Chinese people is imminent!

Lin Jingtao, a double PhD in materials and mechanical engineering, opens his eyes and finds himself in a deadly predicament.

No System, no special powers, only a notebook filled with industrial knowledge and a mind packed with expertise across the entire industrial chain.

From the start, he breaks the deadlock by preventing disease with boiled water, wins people over with homemade soap, and fires up the industrial tech tree with cement and blast furnaces!

The Spanish dare to massacre the Chinese? Mass-produced flintlocks wipe out their elite troops, while coastal guns blast their galleons to pieces, reducing Manila to ruins!

The Dutch dare to seize the trade routes? Ironclad steamships burst onto the scene and crush the combined fleets of four nations, placing the South Seas trade routes firmly in Chinese hands!

While everyone else is still hacking away with cold weapons, he has already established a complete modern industrial system.

While others are still serving the colonizers, he is leading overseas Chinese in overthrowing Western domination of the South Seas!

The Tianqi reign is nearing its end, the Ming dynasty is about to fall, and chaos is coming.

Standing before the steel blast furnaces of Luzon, Lin Jingtao commands an industrial empire in the South Seas and gazes northward:

This time, China will not sink into a century of darkness.

I will collect every drop of blood the Western barbarians owe us, with interest, and make them pay in full!