I'm a Soap Peddler, and the Chongzhen Emperor Wants Me to Save the Ming

His soul transmigrated into the first year of Chongzhen’s reign.

Han Hanyu looked at the hundred taels of startup capital in his hand and smiled.

While others transmigrated to the end of the Ming dynasty to seize grain, territory, and women, what he wanted to seize was the future of the entire world!

He activated the Civilization Revival System. First, he redeemed the soap-making process, earning three hundred taels a day and paying off his debt to the King of Hell in three days.

He redeemed the cement formula and built Hanyu Fortress in six months, with walls three times thicker than those of Fuzhou Prefecture City.

He redeemed blast-furnace ironmaking technology and produced the Ming dynasty’s first batch of high-grade steel, surpassing the West by a century.

He redeemed steam engine blueprints, built the world’s first steam engine, and ushered in the Industrial Revolution!

While the Jianzhou Jurchens were still fighting on horseback with bows and blades, the Dutch were still raiding in sailing ships, and the Spaniards were still swaggering around with matchlock guns,

Han Hanyu’s factory was already mass-producing flintlock rifles on assembly lines. Ironclads were rolling off the production line, and trains were roaring along the tracks!

“What? The Jianzhou Jurchens have entered the pass? Let them get a taste of my line infantry and howitzers!”

“What? The Dutch have occupied Taiwan? Send over the ironclads and hang their governor from a mast for all to see!”

“What? The Spanish are massacring Chinese people in the Americas? Mobilize the whole army and turn the Americas into a Chinese colony!”

From a single bar of soap to an empire spanning all five continents, a realm on which the sun never sets,

Han Hanyu used the fire of industry to kindle the eternal glory of Chinese civilization!