The embers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom flare back to life in Bashu, as a modern soul ignites the spark of the Industrial Revolution. Li Dingchuan, a transmigrator, leads the remnants of his forces into Sichuan and uses his foresight to reshape a world in chaos: he abandons the illusory dream of a heavenly kingdom and puts down roots in a real base of power. Bringing together veteran Taiping generals, Sichuan heroes, fallen gentry, and extraordinary women from the business world, he builds a new regime that unites the military, government, commerce, and education. From copying breech-loading rifles to laying railways, from land reform to the beginnings of a parliament, this power quietly rises between the Qing court and the foreign powers. By the time the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has fallen and the Qing court is barely clinging to life, the Sichuan base has become an industrial behemoth capable of crushing the old age. This is no simple change of dynasties, but a complete revolution in everything from production to the nature of the state: burying the Eight Banners with flintlocks, crushing imperial rule with steam engines, and ultimately fighting a path to survival for a new nation amid the encircling foreign powers.
The book is objective and has a sense of reality which is great.
Very good, very good
The writing is more reasonable! Come on!