Tiangongzhiyilu

In the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, Suzhou craftsman Shen Yan's family was ruined because his father was falsely accused of "hiding forbidden weapons." Fortunately, he was rescued by Xu Jiujin, the director of the Department of Natural Resources of the Ministry of Industry, and was brought to the capital. He started by repairing the thunder-struck ancient clock of Xuanmiao Temple and uncovered the secret of the "listening wind tube" of the Ministry of Industry's Cultural Affairs Department to eavesdrop on the court; he went south to the south of the Yangtze River to crack the "living corpse case" and uncovered Yan Shifan's conspiracy to massacre Zhongliang with the "corpse oil puppet"; he entered Fujian to fight against the Japanese, using the "Japanese-breaking knife" and "anti-borrowing device" to help The Qi Army broke the situation, and even teamed up with the Maritime Gang to use the "Water Detection Talisman" to explore the Japanese pirates' diving attack routes; he followed Qi Jiguang into North Korea to aid the DPRK, and used "rocket-assisted artillery" and "water suppression talismans" to fight against the Japanese armored ships and Onmyoji's sorcery, exposing the scandal of Emperor Wanli's "Qin Tian Jian" having an affair with the Japanese pirates... From Zhengde to Chongzhen, Shen Yan always believed in "tools to carry the way" despite party strife, continuous Japanese invasion, and the Meishan Incident: he used "self-propelled waterwheels" to relieve palace waterlogging, "shaking thunder" to blow up enemy camps, and "improved agricultural tools" to save hungry people. He refused to make "evil surveillance weapons" for the rich, but instead fought for "wages" for craftsmen and built "locust-preventing machines" for the common people. He saw clearly that "spiritual weapons" could become murderous tools, and he firmly believed that "technology" could continue the fire of civilization. In the end, Li Zicheng destroyed the city and the Qing army knocked on the gate. Shen Yan took the "Tiangong Secret Record" and the fragments of the "Zhenguo Ding" and hid in the south of the Yangtze River. He built a "Skilled Craftsman Village" by Taihu Lake and taught the people to cast farm tools, repair waterwheels, and weave brocade. Under the setting sun, he rubbed the old mark of "Da Ming Yongchang" on the tripod and said softly: "The vessel is not destroyed, but the craftsman is here. There is still hope for meeting this man."