[Pseudo-overpowered protagonist + no System + nation-building and farming + steampunk + industrial-era technology overwhelms the past + no self-defeating infighting]
Lin Shen, a master's graduate in materials science, dies suddenly at his desk after working overtime.
He opens his eyes in the An Lushan Rebellion. Tong Pass has just fallen, and the countryside is crawling with routed soldiers.
Two little cheats, and clearing the game requires conquering the land.
While others recruit soldiers and vie for the Central Plains, he buries himself in building everything from scratch in the Tang Dynasty.
He builds Moist Fort, standardizes Moist measurements, manufactures weapons, and develops irrigation, using industrial-era technology to smash the order of a chaotic world.
Lin Shen: “What's the big deal? It's just the basic skill of revising models at work.”
He only wanted to keep his head down, stay alive, and never work overtime again. Instead, he drills his way through the universe and straight into the edge of the stars...
So the Tang Dynasty was only the first newbie village?
