He Yan, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science and has been working for three years, made several AI videos about the "Industrial Revolution in the late Ming Dynasty" on Xiaopo. Com, with just over a thousand fans.
One day, a fan named "Wang Lizao" sent him a private message: "Do you really believe that the industrial revolution will happen tomorrow?"
He replied casually: "Who knows if you don't try?"
The other party replied "Okay".
When he opened his eyes again, in July of the first year of Chongzhen, He Yan's soul passed through the body of a workshop owner with the same name and the same age in Zezhou, Shanxi.
Good news: His family has an iron smelting workshop that has been in operation for many years, and everyone in the village respects him.
Bad news: He Yan knows nothing about iron smelting and can't even tell the difference between molten iron and slag.
What's even more magical is that he discovered that he could shoot videos and upload them to a small broken website in 2026.
As a result, the new series "I opened a workshop in the Ming Dynasty" was launched. At the end of each video, he asked netizens to discuss what to do next.
"The furnace is not hot enough, add limestone!"
"Build a hydraulic blower first!"
"Grow corn! Corn saves the world!"
Netizens came up with ideas and He Yan took action. Improved blast furnaces, forged fine iron, experimented with growing corn, and armed rural warriors...
At first, he just wanted to protect his mother and fellow villagers in troubled times, and be a peaceful and wealthy man.
Until that year when there was a severe drought and refugees came in, the dead bones on the roadside and the numb eyes when the children were being exchanged reminded him of "Wang Lizao"'s questioning -
"Can the Ming Dynasty really achieve an industrial revolution?"
This time, he didn't just try.
Intention: Take a different path to save the country