The Great Zhao Partners

In his previous life, he was a grain merchant who died when grain prices crashed. In this life, he is the orphan of the Shen Family Grain Shop in Qingping County, Great Zhao, forced by others to sign an IOU before his father's coffin. His father died suddenly of an illness. A forged IOU, military provisions, and the undried character Zhao on an old inkstone: someone has laid a clever trap, waiting to swallow both him and the grain shop whole. But Shen Wang is best at turning rotten accounts into winning moves. Buying grain, hoarding stock, working the official roads, and calculating people's motives: while others treat them as business, he treats them as matters of state. Given another life, he will take the rules of this game into his own hands. Grain travels the official roads; profits flow through private ledgers. He'll take on the quagmire that is Qingping County.