1908: The Iron-Blooded Young Marshal

1908, Hushitai.

His father and brother's coffins still lay in the rear hall, while Japanese bayonets had already lifted a corner of the white cloth. An order to confiscate the Gu family's guns, the workers' machinery, and the livelihood of three thousand veteran soldiers.

Gu Zhenhua, a modern military-industrial engineer, had transmigrated into the body of the young marshal at that very moment.

He waited until a short whistle sounded outside the courtyard, then drew his gun.

Hold the camp gates, raid the enemy to recover the overdue pay, repair the old rifles, then haul the captured mountain guns back through the front gate. The soldiers who had nearly been disarmed finally dared to shout, "We won!"

The Great Power Heavy Industry System gave him his first batch of guns and cannons, as well as the chance to climb the heights of industrial development. But revenge was done, and the blockade remained. Coal shipments were seized, and the machines that had just started running again faced a shutdown.

The road Gu Zhenhua had to walk stretched far beyond a single act of revenge.

He would take control of coal and iron, connect factories with railways, and send his own fleet across the open sea. He would lead the people who had risen from Hushitai to build, with their own hands, a powerful nation capable of making machines and defending its borders.