Spy Shadow

Don't look at the machinations of the officialdom, don't look at the warlords' melee, look at how Huizhou merchants used tea and lacquer as blades to fight a smokeless battle to defend the national destiny under the stranglehold of the capital of the great powers. This is the tip of the iceberg in China's modern commercial espionage war. In the spring of 1911, Zhou Huaijin, who returned from studying in Japan, took over the shaky family lacquerware company "Tiangongxuan" amid suspicion that his father "died of a sudden illness". What awaits him is not the glory of reviving the family business, but a series of returns, strange fires, and an "invitation for cooperation" from a gentle Japanese female consultant Yamaguchi Ryoko. The blood letter left by his father guided him back to his hometown in Changxi, Huizhou. Under the third brick of Shuidi House, what he dug out was not gold and silver, but a volume of lacquer tripod secret accounts that his grandfather had exchanged for his life, and half a lacquer mold engraved with cloud and thunder patterns—— "Lacquerware must be coated and polished a hundred times before it can gain an inch of luster; a nation must go through thousands of calamities before it can see the foundation of civilization." This was the last and most tragic expedition of the last generation of Huizhou merchants to save the country with business wisdom between the dusk of the empire and the dawn of the revolution. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.