The End of the Tang Dynasty: Mangdang Fire

A modern mechanical graduate who served as a soldier accidentally came to Tang Wei during a journey. At first, he just wanted to use the knowledge he had learned to survive in the small village of Mangdang Mountain, repair waterwheels, and build forts, like a hard-core survival game. However, the game was over the first time a Swiss Army knife was pierced through the throat of a defeated soldier and warm blood splattered on his face. He understood the weight of Zhou Laoshi's words, "You have to choose between killing or being killed." From that moment on, Lin Tao began to actively "eat people." He no longer responded passively, but took the initiative to make plans: using the locust plague to integrate the refugees, using perjury to counter the powerful, and using salt and iron to build armed forces. He confronted Zhu Wen, the future hero, to save Chang'an from Huang Chao's iron heel, but was completely disappointed with the decadent Tang court. Power is poison, and he drank it just to use this poison to cure a bigger poison. He established the Gewuyuan, lit up the science and technology tree, promoted the new imperial examination, and broke the monopoly of the gentry. Behind all these grand plans were increasingly cold calculations and heavier loneliness. He married two women and gave birth to two sons, but none of them could enter his true inner world. In his later years, he single-handedly created an unprecedented prosperous age, but he also mistakenly killed heroes due to suspicion, was hesitant about his successor, and almost repeated the mistakes of history. He is not a saint, he is a mortal who was carried away by the torrent of the times and finally chose to build a dam to block the torrent. His hands were covered with mud and blood, but his back was cast towards a distant and bright future.