The pot of copper liquid was emitting strange blue smoke. I was holding an iron rod that was hot enough to fry an egg. I had only one thought in my mind: This copper-smelting technology that broke the Ye Dynasty was simply kidding with my life.
Qi Li came through the snow and asked me in a cold voice if I couldn't make anything out of it, would I still want these hands?
I looked up at him: "Sir, if you kill me now, no one in Daye will be able to make a composite bow tire that can withstand three hundred kilograms of tension."
A female Ph. D. In materials engineering, dressed as an official slave, used her professional knowledge to move the entire era, from smelting copper to making repeating crossbows. This is not farming, this is the industrial revolution.