Great Tang: I Asked You to Farm, Not Start an Industrial Revolution!

Transmigrate to the Tang dynasty and find yourself down on your luck? Don’t panic. Awaken the [Civilization Leap System], and amaze the ancients to exchange for modern technology! From the start, armed with bear spray and a tripwire, I turned around and hung Li Shimin and Cheng Yaojin upside down from a crooked tree while they were out in disguise! Watching the eternal emperor’s worldview shatter over a spoonful of snow-white salt and beef stew with potatoes, Lu Jing sighed. “Old Li, time to come clean. I’m actually here to teach you how to dig up the ancestral graves of the great clans!” In the early years of the Zhenguan era, aristocratic clans controlled the government, drought was ravaging Guanzhong, and locusts were on the way. Faced with a nightmare of a start, Lu Jing refused to play by the rules and hit the Tang dynasty natives with an all-out technological advantage! The great clans were strangling the economy? He used middle-school chemistry to purify toxic salt ore, then sold snow-white salt for next to nothing and bankrupted the aristocrats! They monopolized culture? He used movable type printing to launch the Chang’an Morning Post, then serialized Journey to the West for a single coin. It was a devastating blow! Confucian scholars were pressuring the emperor to issue an edict blaming himself? Lu Jing strode into the Taiji Hall with cumin-fried locusts. “Old Li, have you lost your mind? Eating them raw could give you parasites! These things are high in protein, crunchy, and taste like chicken. Hurry up and order people to buy them for one coin per jin!” When the furious villain sent five hundred death warriors to raid his estate at night, Lu Jing calmly lit the fuse of a homemade grenade. “Old Li, cover your ears. Welcome to the age of firearms!” Zhangsun Wuji was sweating profusely nearby. Li Shimin’s eyes were bloodshot as he clung desperately to Lu Jing’s leg, imagining all sorts of things. “Immortal, save me! The Tang dynasty cannot do without you, sir!” When three hundred thousand Turkic cavalry gathered at the Wei River and demanded a princess in marriage and tribute, Lu Jing smiled and unveiled the newly cast cannons and ranks of flintlock rifles. “Pay them tribute? Old Li, today I’ll teach you a new saying: caliber is truth, and range is justice!”