I Am Engaged in Industry in Daming

In the cold winter of 1628, tenant farmer Lin Yuan, who was fainting from hunger on the edge of his field, suddenly opened his eyes - the memory of his previous life as an engineering doctor was pouring into this starved and bloated body. When the Golden Iron Cavalry broke through the barrier, he led his fellow villagers to melt scrap metal into firecrackers and quenched the first barrel with lard. When the Shaanxi bandits arrived at the entrance of the village, he set up a hydraulic forging hammer and knocked the bronze statue of Bodhisattva into explosive bullets. From the threshing machine driven by the waterwheel to the steam mill that emitted black smoke, this engineering doctor of later generations used industrial power to build the first railway track in the Ming Dynasty. While the Forbidden City was still arguing about whether to suppress the bandits or the Tatars, a cast-iron blast furnace had been set up in Lin Yuan's field, the government's chains were melted to cast cannons, and the landowners' land deeds were burned to refine steel. Until one day, Huang Taiji trembled all over when he read the report: There was a mud-legged man in Shanhaiguan who brought hundreds of thousands of peasants carrying flintlock guns and was transporting hundreds of cannons to Shanhaiguan on armored trains...