In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign, a noose already hung atop Coal Hill. Huayang, a modern military academy student, and two classmates were thrust into the final years of the Ming dynasty. The three shared one body and were linked by their brainwaves. The eldest, Huayang, held court in the Forbidden City, wielding imperial power to command the secret police, root out corruption, and seize military control. The second, Li Dingguo, returned to life in the Dengzhou navy, while the third, Zhou Hu, found himself among the troops in Taiyuan. Acting in sync on three fronts, they plotted to defy fate and change history.
Corrupt ministers colluded with the enemy within, while the rebel army closed in from outside and the Qing cavalry watched hungrily from beyond the passes. Zhu Youjian raised the secret banner of “Huayang” with one hand and opened the door to the Industrial Revolution with the other: granular gunpowder, flintlock rifles, keen steel blades, and mighty steamships. From the Wuchang ironworks to the Fangxiang harbor, from the Longyang Railway to the military telegraph network, they reshaped the very foundations of the realm, inch by inch.
When a million Qing soldiers marched south, when Zheng Zhilong watched from the sea, and when Wu Sangui hesitated before the pass, the three brothers, sharing one soul across three bodies, wielded technology as their blade and forged an alliance in blood. Amid the ruins of the late Ming, they carved out a path through the carnage by sheer force.
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The characters are described delicately, the story is vivid, and some plots are imaginative and attractive.