Seafinder

During the Kangxi period, the maritime ban was gradually lifted, and Lin Guanchao, a scribe of the Fujian Navy, joined the coastal surveying and mapping team with his tidal calculation and measurement skills. A missing grain ship left anchor marks in a shallow bay that was impossible to reach. The ship's registration, tide book and warehouse book were contradictory to each other. Lin Guanchao discovered from this that some people were taking advantage of surveying and mapping, inventorying ship registrations, and naval defense changes to turn natural waterways into secret ways of making money that were only open to a few people. To prove that the grain ship was not sunk by the wind, he must build a reviewable chain of evidence from measurement errors, forged documents, and cover-up testimonies, and decide whether to release a chart that could end the smuggling network and risk reintroducing the coastal people to a severe blockade. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.