The Ming Empire Never Sets

Huang Sheng is a small business owner and an experienced engineering graduate. Over the past dozen years, he has started several small factories, with both successes and failures. By chance, he transmigrates to the late Ming Dynasty. He can’t write in the eight-legged essay style, compose poetry, ride horses, or shoot arrows. But he has knowledge that puts him nearly four hundred years ahead of the people of the Ming. Riding animals into battle? Far too dangerous. Let’s take an armored four-wheeled carriage and crush the Jianzhou forces. Surrounding enemy ships with fire ships? Too primitive. Let’s sail armored warships fitted with rifled cannons and destroy the Western barbarians. Using bows and arrows for ranged attacks? Far too backward. Let’s coordinate infantry and artillery, and use flintlock rifles to forge a civilization on which the sun never sets.