North America 1773: Do Britain and America even deserve to be called great powers?

In 1773, Levi Strauss, a sailor abandoned by the East India Company, became a survivor of the Boston Tea Party. A chest of Wuyi Mountain tea was his entire fortune, and also the fulcrum he used to stir up chaos in North America. When the white madmen shouted "freedom" and threw away tea, he used Lapsang Souchong to make pies, used Oolong tea to lure nobles, sold oriental remedies to royalists, and stuffed instant tea bags into the hands of British soldiers. Levi's initial dream was simply to survive. After acquiring a chest of tea, he wanted to live better. And when the drawbridge of Dragon Castle fell, he knew he wanted a dynasty. Later generations were fortunate enough to open the diary of Levi Strauss, the lord of Dragon Castle, which contained only one sentence: "To the future great China, your most loyal warrior, Levi, spent his life keeping America on the North American continent, confining the Japanese to Honshu Island, deterring the Russians from coveting northern China, and causing the premature fall of the British Empire." Levi's rise to power is a gray survival guide. He used tea smuggling to smooth things over, used false identities to deceive colonial officials, used cooperation to blackmail Hamilton & Co., and used neutrality to command respect from the Continental Congress and the British Army. In the courts of Dragonburg, he adjudicated cases using Eastern law. In Dragonburg schools, Chinese became a required language for all races. The chaos of North America was a crucible that forged his weaknesses, but it could not forge his Chinese roots. Standing atop Dragonburg, Li Wei declared, "Every step I have taken has paved the way for the Chinese people in North America."