Great Ming: I Asked You to Rebuild the Navy, Not Create a Modern One

During the Jiajing reign, Japanese pirates ran rampant, and the court sought to build ships to fight them.

Yang Qi transmigrates to this era with a Shipbuilding System and takes charge of overseeing ship construction.

[Congratulations, Host, on successfully building a troop transport ship. Reward: sailing warship construction technology.]

[Congratulations, Host, on successfully building a sailing warship. Reward: paddle-wheel steamboat construction technology.]

[Congratulations, Host, on successfully building a Dreadnought-class battleship. Reward: aircraft carrier construction technology.]

By the Wanli reign, court censors accuse Yang Qi of amassing too much military power and seek to bring the navy under the court's control. Emperor Wanli, Zhu Yijun, looks at the hundreds of warships, thousands of cannons, and hundreds of thousands of naval soldiers, then has the censor executed without hesitation.

Zhu Yijun: “My loyal Prince of the Sea has served the nation faithfully. Whoever dares to slander him will be beheaded without mercy.”