Sage Ruler of the People of the Three Kingdoms: Zhang Jue Doesn't Rebel from the Start

In the final years of the Han Dynasty, war rages everywhere. Zhang Jiao abandons the Yellow Turban Rebellion and establishes himself in the wilderness of Julu.

Crystal-core tempering techniques forge armor and weapons three times harder than iron. The beast-taming industry drives the machinery of war. Assembly-line military workshops produce a hundred crossbows a day. Abolish slave status, distribute farmland equally, establish rules: every technological breakthrough is a hammer blow against the old order.

Cao Cao seeks peace but cannot attain it. Liu Bei seeks benevolent rule but cannot establish it. Yuan Shao clings to the aristocratic clans and traps himself. The warlords throw everything they have into a coalition campaign, only to witness with their own eyes the orderly world they have pursued all their lives, brought to life by Zhang Jiao through technology and institutions.

He will kill no warlord, usurp no Han throne, and claim no imperial title.

He will crush the old age and build a peaceful world without an emperor, governed by all corners of the realm, where every person has roots.