A small country: President Qin, we’d like to import a batch of steel pipes and gas cylinders! Qin Feng: Sure. The instruction manual includes a structural diagram strictly prohibiting welding the two together!

A client: President Qin, we’d like to purchase a batch of fire suppression compression cannons! Qin Feng: No problem. The manual strictly forbids replacing the CO₂ hollow shells with thermite!

Subordinate: President Qin, we’ve bought back the Minsk! Qin Feng: Good. Proceed with the planned modifications—equip it with various types of drones. Our mission is to observe weather, hydrology, fish schools, etc. We’re converting it into a marine science research vessel!

Alternate title of the book: Sorry, We Really Only Produce Civilian Goods!

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?

Modern times, overseas nation building. Spring in Guilin

In 1949, the defeat of the Nationalist government was a foregone conclusion. Li Chongwen traveled through time and space and became a general of the Guangxi clique. He led the Renaissance Society in the Guilin Spring Revolution, gained leadership of the Guangxi clique army, reached an agreement with the United States and obtained support to march south to the French East Indies, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

Large-scale migration of people from Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Hainan, as well as Chinese from Southeast Asia, and land revolution to distribute land, assimilating other ethnic groups with Chinese culture.

Li Chongwen was familiar with the future history. He clung to the United States and developed into a powerful country in Southeast Asia. After the opening up of New China, he cooperated with New China in economics.

The rise of Chinese in Southeast Asia