Lu Chenzhou, a low-ranking clerk of the ninth rank, comes across a broken black stele by chance.
In the next instant, blueprints for cement, cannons, steam engines... designs from another age flood into his mind!
The price is his lifespan! Each use takes another year off his life.
The Northern Rong invade the frontier, the dynasty teeters on the brink of collapse, his colleagues regard him as a monster, and his superior wants him dead.
If this world has no place for him, then he'll set sail with his followers!
They'll head for an unclaimed land without emperors or exorbitant taxes, and spend the rest of their lives igniting the wildfire of the Industrial Revolution!
This isn't one man's quest for supremacy, but an epic tale of pioneers risking everything to carve out a new land!
Very well written and I like it 😍