The Road to a Powerful Nation Through Westernization

Liu Yan transmigrates by chance to Blue Star, a parallel world.

It is the chaotic final years of the Qing dynasty, with foreign powers circling and rebellions erupting everywhere.

While everyone else is still struggling for fame and office, I’m quietly making my rise in Shanghai’s foreign concessions.

I promote Westernization, making my first fortune through buying and reselling goods;

speculate in land, repeatedly mortgaging it to grow rich;

corner gold and silver, teaming up with foreigners to fleece the Japanese;

build factories, laying the foundations of a textile industry;

raise local militia, building a powerful Prussian-style army;

develop industry, bringing an industrial system into shape;

build a navy, keeping fleets busy escorting ships across the seas;

fight the foreign powers, defending our sovereignty and strengthening the nation.

From a local industrial tycoon to a warlord commanding a powerful army;

from a regional magnate to the creator of an industrial empire spanning Asia.

In this life, I will be neither a loyal subject nor a docile citizen.

I will forge the nation’s future in blood and iron, and strengthen China through industry.

I swear to make the dragon flag fly once more at the summit of the world!