In the cold winter of 1854, the small workshop in Genoa was on the verge of bankruptcy.

A mechanical engineer disguised himself as a fatherless military cadet, faced with a mountain of burlap, predatory loan sharks, and a mother with swollen eyes.

He grabbed a piece of war news from The Times and gambled his family's lives:

"I'll make the Brits' winter clothes!"

► 【The sewing machine is my Gatling gun! 】

★ Improved cotton fluffing machine? The Widow's Assembly Line boosts productivity!

Bribing Russian POWs? Confessions from Black Sea corpses become a deadly bargaining chip!

★ Gambling against the British Consul? The Ladder Agreement contains a sinister clause!

When the first pot of gold came into his pocket, he blatantly tore off his merchant coat——

► [From Bronze Ledger to Iron Throne]

❗ Newspaper predicts war: signed article ignites Turin, Cavour personally recruits!

❗ Private army surprise attack on the fortress: Nitroglycerin shatters the Bourbon dynasty, and thousands of black shirts are crowned knights on a bloody journey!

❗ Monopoly of sulfur hegemony: "One ton of sulfur for ten tons of grain", harvesting Sicily during famine!

In the turbulent times of roaring steam engines, he grasped the magic of bonds with his left hand and manipulated the struggle for supremacy among the great powers with his right hand:

Prussian-Austrian battlefield pits Austrian ships: sulfur-mixed coal explodes boiler, and Veneto is taken!

The Pope's Treasury moves gold: 50-year bonds to redeem the Holy City, and the Vatican is furious!

Suez secretly seizes shares: bottom-fishing at the window of France's defeat and strangling the throat of Europe and Asia!

When the Italian crown was crowned, he looked out over the Mediterranean:

"The so-called Caesar is nothing more than making the world believe—

The shadow that sits upon the Iron Throne is a god!"

As the Hun's horses' hooves shattered the ice of the Rhine, the 16-year-old Roman farmer Marcus knew only two things: run, and revenge.

On the day his village burned to the ground, his parents' blood soaked his sandals, his sister's cries were swallowed by the barbarians' wild laughter. From a slave in the army to a blood-soaked centurion, he grasped the old centurion's sword and tore his way through the corrupt legions: officers fed the barbarians with rations, the emperor watched the flames of Rome drunkenly, and even the swords of Gothic mercenaries were sharper than Roman standards.

When the Vandals sacked the Eternal City, he dragged his dying sister out of the pile of corpses, but his only response was "Don't let Rome rot completely."

In 476, the last Western Roman emperor stepped down from the throne. Marcus stood among the broken pillars, the rust on his sword redder than the setting sun. The empire was dead, but the smoke from cooking stoves crushed by iron hooves, the sighs of dying veterans, the faded word "Rome" on the pages of books—he wanted to let them breathe a little longer in the setting sun.

This is not an epic about saving the world, but a story about a small person who uses his life to protect a spark of light in an era of collapse.

In 1922, military historian Contini returned to Italy...

Traveling through a tall, rich and handsome man, marrying a beautiful woman, and reaching the pinnacle of life, let's see how he led Italy to rise!

Feng Ming unexpectedly transmigrates into France during the Hundred Years’ War, becoming a down-on-his-luck French noble, Edmond de d’Albert. In the following decades, watch how he uses wisdom and cunning to give his family a chance to turn their fortunes around, reclaim their fiefdom, ascend to the throne of France, and propel the French Empire to surpass the once-unassailable Roman Empire!

Decades later, with his achievements complete and fame secured, Edmond stands on the balcony of the Europa Palace wearing his imperial robes—blue with golden fleur-de-lis and cockerel motifs—waving to the thunderous applause of Parisians.

“Ladies and gentlemen, I haven’t done anything remarkable, I merely defeated our arch-enemy England, crushed the Holy Roman Empire, advanced the French Empire into the age of maritime colonization ahead of schedule, and pioneered the Industrial Revolution! If you insist on calling me the greatest emperor in European history, then yes, I concede: conquering the Ottoman Empire and the Arab Empire was never my intention. Thank you all!”

Edward III: You made the English speak French!

The Pope: You even abolished the tithe!

Sigismund: Oh… arrogant and proud Frenchman!

Murad I: I swear, I will never pray in a church!

Khoja Bair: Me neither!

Abbas II: Me neither!

Travel back in time to 19th-century Greece and witness his rise from a small Balkan nation. Lead Greece to its great ideals, restore the glory of Rome, and make the name of "Rome" known from Ireland to Khitan! And this is Constantine, the only sun of the Balkan Peninsula, the heir of Komnenos, the second Aristotle, the world's restorer, the Turkic butcher, and the loving father of the Roman people: Rome has only one chance to be revived. If you don't seize it, then let me do it!

A natural engineering man, for some unknown reason, traveled to France before the Revolution and became the elder brother of the future Emperor Napoleon.

Did he hug this thigh homeopathically, and then wait for death; or seize this opportunity to create his own great cause?

The fjord lay still, its surface undisturbed, reflecting the leaden gray storm clouds overhead. Flocks of ravens circled and swooped, heralding the arrival of an icy northern wind. This was the first sight the protagonist beheld after traversing time to ninth-century Scandinavia. He found himself an ordinary self-sustaining farmer, possessing nothing more than a barren, desolate wheat field. For centuries, the glory of the Roman Empire had crumbled into dust, and the world lay fractured. Kings warred incessantly, and in this turbulent, grim medieval era, his foremost task was survival—then, to find a way to end the chaos.

[A refreshing article based on rigorous textual research and directed towards history]

He is in France, has just entered Versailles, and is the crown prince.

The only problem is that the current king is Louis XVI, who will be kicked off in two years...

Since my father and the ministers are unreliable, I have no choice but to rectify France myself!

Earn a little money first and solve the financial crisis that has plagued the country for hundreds of years.

Let’s give those nobles who have evil intentions and seek to seize power a hard beating.

Then he seized the church which occupied a large amount of land and obtained it for nothing.

Industry, technology, agriculture, and commerce go hand in hand. I am the greatest crown prince in France!

That year, Xiao Yingzi was entangled in the alliance army and pressed on the border, so I took his island directly.

That year, I pointed my sword at the whole of Europe. I will accomplish the feats that the Emperor failed to accomplish back then! ...

"Your Majesty, some people think you unified Europe simply by luck. What's your response?" The newly crowned European emperor said indignantly, "They don't understand Napoleon at all. If it weren't for me, who knows how many emperors and kings there would be in Europe. It was I who saved the people of Europe!"