While European merchant ships were still searching for new trade routes across the world's oceans in the 17th century, in the distant region of Australia, the sound of roaring industrial machines could be heard.
Truckloads of coal are being shipped to factories, and countless industrial products are flowing to overseas markets.
When we come to trade with you with our goods, please do not let the cloth drop from our hands and hold the muskets behind our backs.
When the line infantry marched toward the earth in neat steps, when the cold cannons fired scorching shells.
Jiang Zirui stood at the harbor, watching the ironclad ships and merchant ships raise their red dragon flags, and pointed his finger into the distance.
"Let's go! Free trade!"
Heroes rise from the grassroots, turn the tide, support the collapsing building, and save the people from danger.
He traveled through time to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and became Emperor Qinzong Zhao Huan of Song, at the moment when the capital was about to be captured by the Jin army.
He turned the tide and saved the Song Dynasty. He was arbitrary and looked down upon the heroes. He personally led the army to attack Huanglong.
He took revenge fiercely, giving tit for tat.
He will repay the humiliation imposed on the Song Dynasty by the Jin people during the Jingkang Incident tenfold and a hundredfold!
Back in that passionate era, I was a train driver
I am Ye Jun.
Reborn in another world, Xia Kingdom, he became the third prince of Xia Kingdom.
I really don't want to be an emperor.
But my strength doesn't allow it.
It's so hard for me!
[Starting + Ancient Farming + Prince + Time Travel]
Traveling through the Tang Dynasty, the prosperous Zhenguan era is about to come. Li Xiang just wants to make money and enjoy life in this ancient time, making sugar and salt, and easily earning millions of wealth.
Just when he was planning to enjoy the corrupt ancient life, a man named Lao Li and his wife came to his house and often asked him about important matters in the court.
"You're talking about Li Er, right? He's an emperor of all times, but... his sons weren't so good. They all rebelled!"
Li Er couldn't help but get furious: "Good boy, I am your father, the emperor, you can't call me Li Er? Hand over your property to the national treasury, and I will let it go, and I will leave the throne to you!"
Li Xiang was a little confused: What? I am the prince of the Tang Dynasty, I am not even qualified to be a dog!
This is a world of great contention.
A small foot soldier, starting from humble beginnings, slowly rising step by step.
Until he conquered the world, restored the rivers and mountains, pacified the nine kingdoms and destroyed the princes.
In 1978, in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong Island, Chen Bingwen looked at the headline of the Sing Tao Daily:
He knew that he was reborn in the most perfect era.
In this life, he no longer competes on the chessboard, he wants to take control of the game - starting with a bowl of sugar water, and building an industrial empire that controls the heartbeat of the universe!
"Li Ka-shing took 20 years to become Superman, and I took 5 years to crush Superman."
The meaning of rebirth is not to repeat history, but to turn history into my stepping stone.
Chen Jian's time travel is different from others: they all travel to ancient times, but he possesses only animal skins and a stone axe. Starting from a matriarchal clan, he developed and perpetuated a civilization. Was it feudal statehood or unified prefectures and counties? Was it the distinction between the state and the wild, or barbaric conquest? Was it a hundred schools of thought contending, or a hundred saints uniting? Was it a single deity or a universal faith in ancestors? Was it a bloody accumulation of cotton silkworms cannibalizing humans? Or was it a humanistic care and a utopian dream of universal harmony? To enjoy the happiness of civilization, one must experience its pain. The ability to be reborn after death allows him to experience the growth of this civilization through a variety of identities. Tribal member, noble, slave, emperor, commoner, scholar, hired laborer, captain of the Age of Exploration, capitalist of the Age of Primitive Accumulation, conscript in the trenches, the mastermind of a major trust... With the same head in different buttocks, what kind of encounters and insights will arise?
In 878 AD, the fifth year of Qianfu during the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty.
In this year, Wang Xianzhi died in battle in Huangmei. His followers elected Huang Chao as their leader, named him General Chongtian, and he moved to the south to fight.
In this year, Li Keyong killed Duan Wenchu, the military commander of Datong. The father and son launched a rebellion, and the Shatuo troops plundered Hedong.
This year, bandits rose up in large numbers in the south of the Yangtze River and captured many prefectures and counties.
This year, Henan suffered from drought and locusts for consecutive years, and the soldiers rioted.
This year, Emperor Xizong was busy with cockfighting and ball-playing, ignoring state affairs.
This year, the Tang Dynasty was in turmoil.
This year, Shao Shude, who traveled from the future, had his own ideals. He wanted to climb high and see the lights of thousands of homes; he wanted to travel the mountains and rivers and see the pastoral idyll.
He wants children to grow up healthy, he wants women to be free from humiliation, and he wants the elderly to have a good end.
He wants to end this chaotic world.