Steel Hong Kong

The 099 Coast Guard vessel is caught in a bizarre hurricane while patrolling to defend China's maritime rights. Along with an African aid freighter loaded with oil-refining equipment, diesel engines, and high-yield rice seeds, it plunges into the waters off Hong Kong on the eve of the Opium War! Captain Lin Lan and his crew use a small refinery aboard the freighter to produce diesel and break through their energy crisis. They also obtain crude oil from Nanyang, build machine tools and develop industry, then team up with Foshan merchants to produce steel and mass-produce rifles. From breaking out of the Pearl River Estuary to bringing the Heaven and Earth Society under their banner, these modern people use their technological edge to overwhelm the age. The humiliating history of modern China is about to be rewritten by steel behemoths weighing tens of thousands of tons! (This story is fictional. Please do not connect it to reality.)