A Prosperous Tang-Era CEO Prince, Wielding Power Through Business Warfare

Li Chengyuan, a modern business tycoon, unexpectedly transmigrates and becomes Li Jing, the seventeenth prince during the Kaiyuan era of the prosperous Tang dynasty, with neither favor nor influence. In the deep palace, he nearly dies from poisoning, but escapes death through his modern business sense and keen eye for danger. At court, he uses the "Three-Pillar Reconciliation Method" to organize accounts and standardize industries, drawing Xuanzong's attention with his "small-scale cost-cutting strategy." Among the common folk, he brings small and medium-sized merchants together to form the "Hesheng" alliance, breaks the monopolies of powerful families, and establishes himself with innovative models such as exchanging silk for charcoal and dividing up overland transport. When appointed to local office, he is sent to Qizhou in a crisis to provide disaster relief, where he repairs canals, recruits laborers, investigates private traders, and exposes a smuggling racket in salt and iron. He also takes charge as a border defense commissioner and overhauls military equipment. Amid palace intrigue, power struggles among great clans, and undercurrents along the frontier, he wields strategy as his blade and builds on institutions as his foundation, forging a path from an abandoned prince in the inner palace to a man holding power in his hands, amid the splendor and shadows of the prosperous Tang dynasty.

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