In 2024 AD, Lin Muzhi, a quantum physicist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, accidentally traveled through time during an experiment and fell into Beijing in the forty-fourth year of Wanli (1616).
In this year, Nurhaci established the Later Jin Dynasty in Hetuala, and the Ming Dynasty began its final countdown—twenty-eight years later, the Jiashen Incident, the Qing troops entered the pass, and the Chinese mainland sank.
Lin Muzhi has nothing but a mobile phone with constant power consumption and a mobile hard drive full of modern knowledge in his pocket. He started from the bottom of society in Daxing County, used briquettes to earn his first pot of gold, and used modern scientific knowledge as a lever to leverage this rigid empire step by step.
He improved gunpowder, invented the flintlock musket, and established a firearms camp; he turned the tide in the Battle of Sarhu, defeating 30,000 with eight thousand under Shenyang City; he entered the Qing Dynasty in Beijing and killed Wei Zhongxian; he promoted sweet potatoes, built water conservancy, and built water conservancy projects in Liaodong. He tried land reform; he went deep into Shaanxi to appease Li Zicheng, and defused the flames of peasant uprisings by "dividing fields and dividing land"; he created the strongest firearms force in Asia, defeated the Eight Banners cavalry head-on, and completely ended the threat of the Later Jin Dynasty.
In twenty-eight years, he grew from a ninth-grade medical doctor at the imperial hospital to the commander-in-chief of the Daming Firearms Battalion, the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses. The enemies he faced were not only Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, but also party strife, corruption, land annexation, financial crisis, refugee uprisings - and a suspicious, headstrong Emperor Chongzhen who was destined to perish in the historical trajectory.
He finally did it - not with power or conspiracy, but with knowledge, hard work, and an unyielding Han heart.
