Tang Dynasty Merchant

After waking from a spring dream, he finds himself in the Tang Dynasty during the Kaiyuan era, as Mi Qian, a Sogdian merchant in Liangzhou, Hexi, who specializes in selling Persian beauties. With a strategy of making rare goods highly sought after and a courage beyond the ordinary, he establishes himself and becomes an influential local power broker. During the Shangyuan Festival, he encounters the heroine, Princess Lingchang Li Ling, in Chang'an. Along the way, Mi Qian meets Wang Jun, the military governor of Hexi, and helps him navigate relations with the Uyghur tribes. As a result, he becomes the Hexi fiscal commissioner, trading across Hexi, Tubo, and the Later Turkic Khaganate, while his influence steadily grows. When Tubo attacks Hexi and Wang Jun is killed, Mi Qian steps forward to join the fight. He also foils the Uyghur tribes' plot to secretly ally with Tubo and swallow up Hexi, then helps the next military governor defend the region.