I Am Compiling the Yongle Encyclopedia in the Ming Dynasty

Name: I Am Compiling the Yongle Encyclopedia in the Ming Dynasty
Author: Sculptor Li

我在明朝修永乐大典

by Sculptor Li (雕人李某)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 279k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical High-Concept
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Source: Fanqie

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What secrets lie hidden in the Yongle Encyclopedia? Steam engines, alternating current, ocean-going iron ships: these are no legends, but the butterfly effect set in motion by a physics professor from 2026.

Huang Zhibai transmigrates to the final years of the Yongle reign. After surviving an execution, he brings modern physics to the industrial foundations of the Ming Empire. Hot-air balloons rise into the sky, steam engines roar, and the chimneys of the Steam and Fire Bureau belch smoke day and night along the Tonghui River.

But the faster this behemoth of an empire is pushed, the deeper its cracks grow. Jiangnan financiers, the civil bureaucracy, remnants of the Golden Family, Japanese pirates, and Portuguese fleets: all the forces that once dragged the Ming Dynasty down burn even brighter in the fires of industrialization.

There is no System, no cheat. All he can rely on are the formulas in his head and a group of like-minded pillars of the nation.

This is not the tale of one man's rise through the ranks. It is the story of a nation and an era being dragged, against all odds, into the torrent of industrialization.

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