Age of Discovery: From the Start I Raid the East India Company’s Headquarters

I’ve transmigrated to the fifth year of the Tianqi era and wound up in the hold of a Dutch East India Company slave ship, surrounded by filth and misery. Things are looking bad. What should I do, guys? Waiting for answers, urgent, urgent, urgent!

All right, things aren’t quite so bad for now. My transmigration came with a supply warehouse, stocked with over 300 AK-47s and plenty of machine tools.

“With all these weapons from the future, I’m going after the Dutch, guys. I hear they built a fort in southwest Taiwan. I say we get the gang together and pull off something big!”

“Guys, the operation was a success! Fort Zeelandia is ours. See? We’ve got our first fortune and a place to settle down. I hear the Spanish ship three million taels of silver back to Manila from the Americas every year. What do you say, should we go raid them?”

“Not saying anything? I’ll take that as a yes! All right, enough talk. Let’s get to it!”

Years later, steam trains race across the ancient land of China, while steamships belch thick black smoke as they sail the routes across all four oceans.

Australia is our pasture, the Great Plains of North America and Russia are our granaries, the Pampas send us cattle and sheep, Peru sends us its silver, the gold of South Africa and Australia flows to Nanjing, the South Seas supply us with rice, and the East Indies are our backyard…