I Brought a Factory Back to the Great Ming

Transmigrated into the lowest class of artisan household in the Hongwu era, would changing a plane get me accused of sorcery and beheaded?

Lin Chen takes three hundred artisans straight to the South Seas and builds an industrial empire from scratch.

While your Ming Dynasty seals off the seas and shuts itself away, I build ironclad warships to rule the oceans.

While you treat artisans like beasts of burden, every craftsman under my command has a home and land.

Smelt steel and cast cannons, build steamships, mass-produce firearms.

While others are still fighting with cold weapons, he has already unlocked the entire industrial tech tree.

Only when twelve ironclad warships line the waters off Jinling does Zhu Yuanzhang understand:

The young artisan he once let escape after declaring, “Anyone who goes to sea will die,” can now shake the entire Ming realm.