This Advisor is Scientific

Chen Xiaole wakes up as a broke county clerk—just in time for bandits to storm the gates. While everyone else quotes poetry or flaunts their protagonist aura, he grabs a shovel. Latrines become public health initiatives, cannons are 'evil-warding firecrackers,' and hiring women is just 'liberating productivity.' The magistrate calls it nonsense, the gentry mock his 'wicked crafts,' and nobles see him as a pawn. But Chen quietly lights up the tech tree, steamrolling from backwater county to imperial capital. Years later, his industrial reforms reshape the nation, his 'New Learning' spreads like…