Daming: Start with a Broken County Town

Traveling through the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Tian became the run-down magistrate of Yongning County. There were only 800 people left to die of hunger in the county, and the yamen didn't even have a fire stick. But he knew materials science - firing ceramics, making soap, and making glass. He made Yongning rich in three months; he made steel, made flintlock guns, and trained new troops, and made the bandits frightened in half a year. The population skyrocketed, the territory expanded, and the emperor was shocked when he paid a private visit incognito. The prince worshiped him as his teacher, and Chongzhen used and guarded against him. Court intrigues, border wars, and the industrial revolution. How can a county magistrate influence the declining Ming Dynasty?