Late Ming: New China

Li Feng and Lv Qinghou, a combat engineer and a high school homeroom teacher, travel to the Ming dynasty. Facing an utterly tragic era, they realize that only by organizing and mobilizing the people can they survive various crises. An individual is powerless against the times, but when individuals unite to form a collective, they can withstand natural and man-made disasters! One person watering thirty acres of land can die of exhaustion in the fields, but a thousand people digging canals and building irrigation networks can water ten thousand acres. A single craftsman might spend half a month building a cart, keeping the technique secret within the family, only to have his family ruined by yamen runners. Li Feng standardizes the manufacturing process, and two hundred craftsmen produce carts that spread across the entire empire. Ming dynasty cannonballs don't explode, and the engineer calls them junk, then uses wartime indigenous methods to defeat the roving bandits. Just as the Sanshan Commune they founded thrives in Henan, they are assassinated by Qing agents! It turns out...