Framed in a single stroke, Sixth Prince Zhu Hui is banished to Ningyuan in the far north.
What awaits him is a ruined earthen city, three hundred old and injured soldiers, empty granaries, and steppe cavalry watching hungrily beyond the walls.
Everyone thinks he is as good as dead.
But no one knows that this fallen prince has engineering knowledge far beyond his time.
The first blast furnace, the first batch of manganese steel, the first matchlock, the first cannon...
Starting from nothing in the depths of despair, he rewrites the rules of the game with steel and gunpowder.
Three years later, three thousand iron guards storm the royal encampment and raise a monument at Mount Yanran.
Ten years later, steam roars, railways crisscross the land, ironclad ships cleave through the waves, and their guns take aim at the whole world.
Fifty years later, the flag of an empire on which the sun never sets flies across the globe. Standing at the pinnacle of his empire, the aging emperor looks beyond the map of Earth toward the stars and the sea.
They wanted him to die in the bitter cold of the far north.
Instead, he made an entire era join him in the grave.
[Infrastructure building + industrial revolution + global conquest]
