The Great Ming Beiyang Army

When a broke, balding thirty-something named Pan Hu gets zapped back to 1625 by a malfunctioning cosmic AI, survival becomes his only goal—until he awakens Xinghe, a greedy super-intelligent system with ambitions as vast as the empire itself. Fleeing a brutal Jurchen massacre in the dying days of the Ming Dynasty, this unlikely pair strikes a desperate bargain. Armed with alien technology and future knowledge, Pan Hu transforms from hapless time traveler into the architect of a new world order. He'll drive out the northern invaders, crush Western powers, dominate the seven seas, and forge a Mi…