Winds Sweep the South Seas, 1840

In 2018, metallurgical PhD Lin Feng’s soul travels back to 1830 in the Nanyang, where he becomes the son of a Chinese merchant on the brink of death. His family faces ruin, and the great powers close in from all sides. Using knowledge from the future, he upgrades industries, makes steel, and builds an army. He rises amid the cracks of colonial rule, eventually becoming the ruler of a Nanyang empire that dominates the seas and brings the age of sail to an end. Steel and fire, one man’s industrial revolution.