Trading with a Thousand Years Ago: I Swap Glass Mirrors for an Oil Field from the Start

Chen Bei transmigrates to Hong Kong in 1990 and gains access to a strange space that lets him trade and communicate with people from a thousand years in the past.

So he trades a few glass mirrors for a deserted island from a thousand years ago. In 1990, that island is found to hold an oil field with reserves of one billion tons, worth hundreds of billions...

The international community refuses to recognize the five-thousand-year history of Longguo, claiming no artifacts from the Xia dynasty have ever been unearthed.

So Chen Bei trades a few pounds of fine wine for several bronze cauldrons from the Xia dynasty.

He sees ASML, the future lithography-machine giant, beginning to make its mark.

So Chen Bei goes to Neon a thousand years in the past and trades a lighter for the royal genealogy of Neon's ruler. Using it, he acquires Kang* lithography machines and crushes ASML before it can rise...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.