Republican-Era China: Beginning with the Railway Protection Movement

[A hard-core industrial development novel set in 1911, no System, alternate history, and no real-world comparisons] Lin Mosheng, a materials science PhD, transmigrated to Sichuan in 1911 and became the son of a cloth merchant whose family had fallen on hard times. A long queue, a handsome face, a diploma from a German military academy, and sixty silver dollars were all he owned. Starting with the Railway Protection Movement, he built an enterprise from nothing: setting up arms factories, building railways and ports, and manufacturing planes and tanks. Over twenty-four years, he transformed Sichuan from a poor inland province into China's strongest industrial bastion of resistance against Japan. This is a hard-core epic about a transmigrator who “cultivates industry” in a turbulent era. He knows how history will unfold, and he isn't a saint. He just wants Chinese people to live a little better. (