In the Gengzi year, a young man named Su Yi raised the banner of rebellion on a rubber plantation on the island of Kalimantan.
At the time, the Nanyang was a colony flowing with gold in Dutch eyes, and a chessboard where British and French interests intersected.
No one believed that an armed force formed from a plantation's security team could defeat the colonial army within a year. Nor did anyone foresee that this power, born in the equatorial rainforest, would get the entire world to sign the World Federation Charter just forty-six years later.
From the primitive accumulation of rubber and oil to leapfrogging ahead during the “Great Technological Leap”; from regional power struggles in the Strait of Malacca to a global balance of power among three great forces.
As Europe bled itself dry in the trenches and old empires decayed and collapsed amid crisis, a new civilizational order was taking root along the equator.
(Parallel fictional world + no female lead + power struggles + industry + technology + high-spirited action)
This is too open to stretch your crotch! We only give you blueprints for everything. Can you be awesome if you have blueprints? If a modern person travels back to that era, he will not be able to survive that era if he has the foresight! It's already cheated, can't it be opened a little wider? The protagonist lived a miserable life in that era, and the readers felt miserable!
Baffling.