Shen Zhou, the Internet product manager who died suddenly in 996, opened his eyes and became Chen Zhou, a peasant baby in the Chu Dynasty.
There is no system, no golden finger. His only weapon is the modern knowledge in his mind - from "Tiangong Kaiwu" to the industrial revolution, from microeconomics to the principle of flintlock.
At the age of three, he drew three views to help his father out of the siege. At the age of ten, he used native silk reeling to resolve the crisis of family extinction. At the age of fifteen, he established a commercial territory with the prototype of "joint stock system". At the age of twenty, he shocked the government and the public with his "Strategies for River Regulation". At the age of twenty-five, he presented "Ten Strategies for Determining the Country" in the imperial examination, and he embarked on the road of imperial reform.
From a village boy to a chief minister, from improving a plow to transforming a dynasty, he spent fifty years equipping this farming civilization with an engine called "modernity"——
Develop industry, reform the tax system, establish military academies, reform imperial examinations, develop firearms, and promote the advent of the steam engine...
When vested interests regard him as a thorn in their side, and when conservatives scold him for "disrupting the ancestral system," he has only one sentence: "Study things to gain knowledge, and unite knowledge with action."
This is not Long Aotian's cool article, but the real struggle of a modern soul in ancient times——
How to hide clumsiness, how to break the situation, how to dance on the edge of power, how to spend a lifetime to give a civilization a new set of bones.
When he died, steam trains were racing across the empire.
