The Carpenter Emperor Handcrafts a Gatling Gun, and Wei Zhongxian Breaks Down

[Historical What-If] [System] [Overpowered Protagonist] [Great Ming] [Decisive and Ruthless]

He transmigrated to the second year of the Tianqi reign and became Zhu Youxiao, the historically famous “Carpenter Emperor.”

A hellish start: the treasury was empty, civil officials defied the emperor, the Jianzhou Jurchens were at the passes, and refugees filled the land.

No need to panic. He awakened the [Great Power Industrial Leap System]!

Everyone laughed at him for neglecting state affairs to indulge in woodworking, never realizing he was secretly building precision machine tools in the inner palace!

The day the officials forced their way into the palace, he pulled out a revolver and blasted the screen in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. “From today on, I call the shots in Great Ming!”

Letting Wei Zhongxian loose to bite people? He needed a chief confiscator to rake in cash and build railways!

Giving a position to the impoverished scholar Song Yingxing? He was appointing the chief scientist of his Royal Academy of Engineering!

While the Donglin faction was still spouting classical rhetoric, his steam locomotives were already thundering north. And when Huang Taiji led a hundred thousand cavalry south, they were met by a storm of metal from Maxim guns.

No marriage alliances, no tribute. The emperor guards the gates, and industry opens the world!