Great Song: Who Says the Southern Song Can’t Move Farther South?

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Modern engineer Zhao Yugui transmigrates as a prince of the dying dynasty and angrily flips the table. “If we can’t beat them to the north, who says we can’t head south?!” Fiercely practical and protective of his own, he has none of a pedant’s moral scruples. He seizes power by force, executes the surrender faction, and leads the survivors straight to Hainan and Ryukyu, then pushes farther south until they occupy Kangaroo Country!

Ten years later, when smoke-belching ironclad steamships blot out the sky as they blockade the Yangtze, and the roar of breech-loading cannons shreds the Mongol cavalry, the whole world trembles. “You can fight a naval battle like this?”

Standing on the bridge of an ironclad, Zhao Yugui sneers. “Barbarians, how do you like the sand of the northern desert?”