Murong Xu, a doctor of materials science, accidentally traveled through time and became a poor boy from the Dayong Dynasty. The original person had his legs broken and was thrown into the wilderness because he refused to be copied by the county magistrate's son. After Murong Xu woke up, he used modern knowledge to create high-purity alcohol for disinfection from local materials, improved fire dumplings in exchange for money, and begged all the way to Beijing.
He knows that in this world, only power can drive change. He decided to take the "imperial examination", the only promotion ladder. But the policy papers he wrote were not eight-part essays, but shocking contents such as "On the Coke Steelmaking Method" and "On the Necessity of Laying Railway Tracks".
At the rural examination site, he used mathematical principles to deconstruct the problem of river control and calculated the optimal stress point of the dam on the spot, which shocked the examiners. However, he was also labeled by the conservatives as "devilful words" and faced the danger of death. At a critical juncture, the "smokeless gunpowder" formula he presented was valued by the Ministry of War, and he was able to make meritorious deeds.
From then on, Murong Xu opened a different path to promotion: passing the Jinshi examination was not to become a civil servant, but to seize the real power of the Ministry of Industry; to control floods was to obtain the private arm of the river governor; to pacify the border was to plunder resources and establish his own industrial base.
While civil servants were still debating the "distinction between Yi and Xia", he had already built the first blast furnace on the border of Dayong. When the enemy's army pressed on the border, they were greeted by the roar of rifled guns and field artillery. Murong Xu not only wanted to be a powerful minister in charge of the world, but also wanted to be the only "industrial emperor" of this era.
