“My gaze is not fixed on the eight reaches of the world, but on the entire globe. In this realm, there are only wildernesses I have yet to reach, and no territory I cannot conquer!”
Yang Fan, a top modern geological exploration expert and PhD in archaeology, unexpectedly transmigrates into Li Longji, Prince of Linzi, on the eve of the Shenlong coup.
Faced with the dying Empress Wu, the tyrannical Zhang brothers wreaking havoc in government, the weak and greedy Li Xian and Wei clan, and a Great Tang about to sink into a decade of internal strife, Yang Fan gives a cold laugh and draws the titanium-alloy dagger hidden in his sleeve.
If the Great Tang is rotten to the core, then he will perform the coldest surgery and cut out the corruption once and for all!
He does not speak of fate, only capital and steel. He has no System, but the modern disciplines in his mind, thirteen centuries ahead of their time, are an absolute god capable of crushing everything through sheer technological superiority.
He is the executioner at court: He cuts off the silver reserves of the Court of the Imperial Treasury and recruits five hundred elite assassins. He uses microexpression psychology to get a read on Shangguan Wan'er and exploits architectural blind spots to breach the Daming Palace guard. Before Zhang Jianzhi can even draw his blade, Yang Fan has already seized control of the Great Tang's purse strings and military power.
He is a fanatic expansionist, an industrial emperor: Since An Lushan does not dare rebel, then he can get lost in the Far Northeast and Sakhalin, digging coal and smelting steel for the Great Tang's polar heavy-industry base!
He is the architect of global rules: He crosses east over the Baek River, sweeps across the Japanese islands, drives the Japanese imperial family down into the Iwami silver mines, and establishes a global gold standard for the Great Tang. He seals off Tibet to the west and dismantles the highland nomads without bloodshed. He marches south to the Ganges, using modern religious psychology and artillery to turn India into the Great Tang's cotton mill and granary for generations to come!