1900: Founding a Nation in Korea

【Transmigration + Joseon + overthrowing the Qing to restore the Han + maneuvering among the great powers + an overwhelmingly satisfying power fantasy】 (How can one minor Han official overturn the entire East Asian chessboard?) Lin Beichen, a PhD in international relations, opens his eyes to find himself in 1882 Seoul, Joseon, as a low-ranking Qing dynasty aide, only seventh rank. Yuan Shikai treats him like an errand boy, the Japanese won't even give him a proper look, and Joseon's yangban aristocrats regard him as invisible. Everyone thinks he's an insignificant nobody. Until that night... When Minbi is surrounded and killed by ronin, he fights his way through Gyeongbokgung Palace alone, blade in hand. During the Gapsin Coup, Yuan Shikai doesn't dare act. Lin charges into the royal palace alone, defeats the Japanese troops in three hours, and captures the Enlightenment Party. Ito Hirobumi slams the table during negotiations. “What right does a mere aide like you have to, ” Lin slams his gun down on the table. “This gun is my authority.” In the year of the First Sino-Japanese War, he commands a hundred thousand troops in Joseon, watching the Japanese slaughter each other with cold eyes. On the day the Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed, he declares: “The Great Hua Empire is founded today. I, Lin Beichen, a Han man, have come to reclaim the world that rightfully belongs to the Han.” From Joseon to Manchuria, from Manchuria to the Central Plains, and then across all of Asia. The Eight-Nation Alliance? They sign the treaty on their knees. Japan's Meiji Restoration? He'll put an end to it. When the great powers' warships arrive at Incheon Harbor, they find a unified, industrialized New Hua Empire, looking down on the world. And standing at the very top of the empire... is a Han official of the seventh rank, once scorned by everyone. 《I Played the Game in Joseon》《The Manchus Owe the Han, and I'll Collect》《This Seventh-Rank Aide Is a Force to Be Reckoned With》