211 BC, the thirty-sixth year of the First Emperor. It was less than a year before the death of Qin Shihuang.
Seven modern people traveled here - a historian, an oncology surgeon, a heir to traditional Chinese medicine, a PhD in biochemistry, a special forces soldier, a doctoral student in history, and a minor official from the Qin Dynasty. They were strangers to each other, but were united by the same mission: to save Qin Shihuang.
No anesthesia, no antibiotics, no sterile operating room. They used bronze knives to perform gastric cancer resections, used moldy citrus to extract penicillin, and performed the most impossible surgery in human history in a marching tent.
The operation was successful. Qin Shihuang survived.
But the story is far from over. The emperor, who had narrowly escaped death, began to liquidate the traitors and established Fusu as the crown prince; he issued edicts on his sins and admitted his mistakes to the world; he abolished the book-burning order, established an Imperial College, opened a court of admonition, and built Changpingcang; he expanded westward along the Silk Road, traded with Rome, and illuminated the world with the light of gunpowder and papermaking two thousand years in advance.
Thirty years later, the time travelers left quietly. Only an extra line of small words on the long bronze sword proved that everything was not a dream: "I will not let the world down, and the world will not let me down."
In another time and space, Qin died without a second generation. Five hundred years later, there was only one country in the world - Qin. Its national flag is black with a red word "Qin" embroidered on it. Children are telling an ancient story in school: more than two thousand years ago, a group of ordinary people traveled through time and space and changed the entire world with their knowledge, courage and lives.
History is not the history of one person, but the history of all peoples. This is the story.
