The First Craftsman of Ming Dynasty

In the thirty-sixth year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese invasions broke out everywhere, the national treasury was empty, and party disputes in the court continued. Lin Yan, a modern mechanical engineer, woke up and became the only son of a run-down craftsman family in Shaoxing Prefecture. His father died of a mysterious illness, the ancestral iron shop was on the verge of bankruptcy, and creditors came to seize the house with forged IOUs. All he was left with was a ten-day deadline, a few boxes of old tools, and an iron furnace that was about to go out. Everyone was waiting to see the Lin family destroyed. However, Lin Yan started with a pedal bellows and rekindled the fire in the long-dormant iron shop.