Late Ming: I Ignite a Slave Revolt in Jiangnan

[Transmigration to the Late Ming + Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Feudalism + Anti-Oppression + Farming + Resistance to the Qing + Industrial Revolution + Enlightenment] In the mid-seventeenth century, the world was still trapped in the shackles of feudal ignorance. Everyone knows the French Revolution ushered in the modern wave of civil rights, but no one knows that humanity's earliest modern revolution for equality began in Jiangnan at the end of the Ming dynasty. Factories sprang up across Jiangnan, while countless hereditary bondservants toiled day and night, bound for generations by contracts of servitude and treated as less than human. No outsider needed to preach to them. Their suffering awakened them, and the people at the bottom raised their voices of their own accord. History recorded their words with ringing force: “Must we remain slaves forever?” “We are people just like you. How dare you call us slaves?” In the original timeline, this tremendous uprising of the oppressed masses was crushed by the reactionary forces of the Ming and Qing dynasties working together. Shen Mo, a transmigrator, gathers this first spark of spontaneous awakening in Chinese history, a hundred years ahead of the rest of the world. Before Europe's revolutionary fervor can sweep east, a million oppressed people rise up in turn, demanding their contracts and burning them, smashing the millennia-old chains binding masters and servants and overthrowing the hereditary hierarchy of privilege. They capture Nanjing and take control of Jiangnan's wealth and population; They hold back the Qing invasion from the north, abolish old institutions, enlighten the people, and foster industry. This is not another peasant uprising that merely changes the dynasty. It is China's first modern social revolution. They seek neither a change of dynasty nor to carve out a kingdom for themselves. They fight only to forge a new world where generations of toilers everywhere can stand as equals!