A programmer transmigrates into the body of a doomed tyrant and crushes history under the weight of the Industrial Revolution. By day, he puts on a show of music and revelry, playing the fool. By night, he smelts steel in blast furnaces and builds up the realm. Three years in Jiangdu: muskets replace swords, and airships blot out the grasslands. When Yuwen Huaji's rebels storm the imperial palace, three hundred flintlock rifles stand ready in the darkness. In the name of a foolish emperor, he does the work of a wise ruler.
