The Great Ming Dynasty

The crossroads of history have never been so thrilling. What would the world look like if the Eastern dragon and the Western powers were on the same starting line and entered the age of steam roar? Shen Yuan, the eternal time traveler, arrived during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. He founded the Institute of Science and Technology, igniting the technological fire that eventually became a prairie fire. The steel behemoth gallops across the fertile wilderness, and the steam fleet engulfs the world! While the West was still groping at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the descendants of the dragon had harnessed the torrent of steel and redrawn the world's map. Until 1840, when the fleet of the "Empire on which the Sun Never Sets" stumbled in, what they saw was an Eastern behemoth that had already completed the industrial revolution and redefined "tribute" with gunboats! Close the country? A century of humiliation? No, this time, the sun will never set in China! This is a Chinese steampunk fantasy, the ultimate fantasy of a civilizational race!