Ming Dynasty Steam Chronicle

In the ninth year of Xuande's reign, modern mechanical engineer Lin Zheng'an fell into Nanjing from a fog. He didn't bring any drawings or memorize an encyclopedia, only the laws of physics and engineering methodologies. Fortunately, the original copy of "Yongle Dadian" still exists, and it contains the hydraulic machinery, gear transmission and blast furnace blasting of the Song and Yuan Dynasties that were lost to later generations - but the scholar-bureaucrats only regarded it as a book about ostentation. Lin Zheng'an persuaded the civil servants who despised labor, rescued the wisdom of craftsmen from the ceremony, personally improved the water drainage system, smelted qualified iron parts, and then reproduced the Newcomen steam pumping engine that consumed astonishing coal consumption and had frequent failures. This is not a story about reaching the level with one click: from water drainage to steam engines, from wooden treasure ships to steam-assisted fortune ships, he has traveled for decades. When the Ming Dynasty fleet sailed into the Mediterranean, it brought with it improved metallurgy and mechanical blueprints, as well as ancient Greek manuscripts and the spark of European humanities - the two civilizations catalyzed each other between gears and parchment. The real difficulty is never to build a machine, but how to place the human heart and the old order that are shaken by the machine when it roars.