Transmigrate into the Duke Yansheng of a top-tier aristocratic family, with a life at its peak from the start?
Don't celebrate too soon! It's the second year of Shunzhi, and the Qing court's blades are raised. The “haircut edict” is about to bathe the land in blood!
The original Kong Yinzhi in history was a spineless coward. He shaved his head, bowed the knee, and became a lackey, earning a place on the pillar of shame and centuries of condemnation.
But in this life, I will never live on my knees!
On the surface, I deliberately act meek and obedient, letting others curse me as a Qing lackey and a traitor to the Han people. Behind their backs, I plot every step. As the disastrous haircut edict sweeps across the land, I fight desperately to avoid being forced into that ugly queue hairstyle. Even when I finally raise the banner against the Qing, I have never shaved my head, and my back has never bent!
Using my modern knowledge, I open up trade routes and amass a fortune, while recruiting firearms experts, developing new weapons, and secretly training an elite private army.
For two whole years, I lie low and quietly build up all my strength, waiting for the right moment to take up arms against the Qing.
Everyone thinks I'm the Qing's well-behaved boy. Little do they know that from the day I transmigrated here, my goal has been to bury the Qing with my own hands!
Overthrowing the Manchus and reclaiming China's ancestral lands are only the beginning. From then on, I will lead China out to sea, explore the four corners of the world, and rule it all!
It's very nice and the writing is more reasonable. It's much better than those Internet articles that try to lower your intelligence. When I was studying in the early years, I often thought about how far the military-industrial system that had begun to take shape in the late Ming Dynasty would have developed if the Manchus had not entered the customs and deliberately suppressed the development of Chinese firearms and constrained scientific and technological progress. If the Manchu and Qing court could fully support hard-working scientists such as Bi Maokang, Mao Yuanyi, Jiao Xu, and Song Yingxing, and give them sufficient resources to study, would China still lag behind the West in modern times? It is with this kind of thinking in mind that I wrote this novel, hoping to rewrite the regrettable historical trend in an imaginary time and space.
Very in-depth writing This book is very unconventional and the difficulty of survival is greater than that of ordinary protagonists. It is like walking on a knife edge and you will die if you are not careful.