Republican Era: You Asked Me to Manage a Warlord, So I Built a World Power?

From the start, southern warlords have him in a chokehold, the Japanese throw their weight around on his doorstep, and his own Northwestern Army is so poor that even the rifling in its gun barrels has worn smooth.

If reason won’t work, then we’ll teach them a lesson with artillery!

Starting with mining and smelting steel in Xishan, Lu Yunchen builds his forces at a breakneck pace.

When the Japanese mass their troops for revenge, they discover to their horror that the Great Northwest has become an impregnable steel fortress!

Lu Yunchen: “My rule is simple: whoever has the bigger guns is right!”