The engineering doctor's soul travels through the real history of Emperor Yongli, the last emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, reconstructing the power structure and global civilization process in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties: the protagonist first lurked on an isolated island in the South China Sea for ten years as a member of the Nanming clan, and then returned to Beijing to take the throne. With his understanding of the industrial revolution that transcended the times, he purged the court in three years and wiped out all the main forces of the Jin Dynasty. He then spent thirty years to complete the transition from an Asian hegemon to a global ruler, and finally created the "Ming Federation" covering five continents.