Nanhua: The Founding of a South American Nation, 1862

In 1862, the smoke of war still hangs over South America. The Qing court is rotten, and millions of Chinese laborers are sold and shipped across the ocean like animals, struggling to survive amid the blood and tears of the plantations.

Zhu Mingyuan, a modern man reborn in the past, witnesses his countrymen die under torture on a Peruvian sugar plantation. What rises in his chest is more than hatred: it is a mad idea. On this land, forgotten by the colonial powers, he will build a home for the Chinese, a true nation of their own!

From a shack in the Amazon Valley to a federal empire spanning South America; from three hundred rebellious laborers to an iron army forged by a million immigrants. He shatters the shackles of slavery with the Treaty of Nanhua, crushes warlords’ barriers beneath steam locomotives, and sounds the declaration of the Eastern dragon with the opening of the Panama Canal.