Lin Fan, a graduate student in modern chemistry, accidentally traveled through time during an all-night experiment and became the ten-year-old emperor Zhu Yijun in the first year of Wanli.
At the beginning, we have to face the strict discipline of the chief assistant Zhang Juzheng, the ardent expectations of Empress Dowager Li, and the mess of the Ming Dynasty, which is poor, weak, internal and external troubles. Wanli in history was suppressed as an adult, laid low in his later years, and finally ended up being liquidated after his death. Lin Fan does not want to make the same mistakes again. He just wants to use modern knowledge to "pretend to be an immortal", get rid of the shackles, and live peacefully until retirement.
He used his knowledge of chemistry to burn the first piece of transparent glass and hard cement in the Ming Dynasty under the pretext of "dreams from gods"; he used lenses to focus fire and crystallize sodium acetate to perform "turning water into ice", shocking both the government and the public, and establishing himself as the "immortal emperor". While dealing with Zhang Juzheng's economic and historical lessons, he secretly cultivated high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, and peppers, built cement kilns, sharpened telescopes, compiled statistical ledgers, and used science and technology to improve people's livelihood and consolidate national strength.
He subdued the young eunuch Wei Zhongxian and the low-level hawker Abao, took charge of technological research and development internally, and observed the public sentiment externally. He persuaded Zhang Juzheng to implement reforms and avoid historical party disputes and liquidation crises. There is no struggle for hegemony or power, only farming and technology, building embankments and borders, enriching the people and strengthening the country, and slowly turning the crisis-ridden Ming Dynasty into a livable "resort".
The ten-year-old boy emperor, wearing the garb of a cultivator, used hard-core technology to cultivate the country and build a powerful country. He quietly changed the fate of the Ming Dynasty while fishing for money, and finally realized his dream of a happy retirement.
