Hong Qiming, a retired special soldier, traveled to northern Zhejiang in 1854 during the Taiping Rebellion. When I opened my eyes, there was no smoke for ten miles and corpses were everywhere. With an unforgettable memory and an upgradeable portable space, he crawled out from the dead, gathered refugees in Taihu Lake, improved firearms, and opened up Shanghai trade routes. Starting from the three islands of Taihu Lake, he saved all people from water and fire and changed their fate against the will of heaven.
This is not a simple struggle for hegemony, but a journey of blood and tears by a man from the future to rebuild civilized order in troubled times. When railways, telegraphs, cement, banks, and schools were built in the flames of war, an ancient empire ushered in a new dawn.
The purpose of novels is to let people see how an era that should have fallen can stand up again.