Great Ming: From the Tianqi Carpentry Workshop to Imperial Ming Heavy Industries

(Court politics, mechanical innovation, increased productivity, and the parallel development of banking and finance. A heavy-industry story set in the late Ming.)

The protagonist is a mechanical engineer from the future, a so-called overworked wage slave, who transmigrates into the body of the carpenter emperor, Zhu Youjiao.

He builds an industrial system on a foundation of basic manufacturing technology, boosts productivity, and develops things step by step. There are no mystical cheats.

The early chapters focus on court intrigue as he cautiously reclaims imperial authority to protect himself.

Starting with a wooden lathe, he gradually advances precision manufacturing.

Starting with a currency cleanup, he builds the first modern national banking system in the East.

From handcrafts to water power, steam, internal combustion, and then the first steps into electricity, industry advances steadily until it reaches the era of the First World War.

Watch as the protagonist overwhelms every paper tiger with the force of legitimacy and forges a golden age for the Great Ming.

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