Chancellor of the Great Ming

The sixteenth century was the height of colonial expansion. Bound by the ancestral instructions, the Great Ming took no part in dividing up the world, sowing the seeds of its eventual backwardness.

Xie Jin was a wealthy businessman in the twenty-first century. After arriving in the Ming dynasty, he began as an aide to a county magistrate, overcame one obstacle after another, and eventually brought about the Longqing opening of the maritime trade, leading the Great Ming onto the world stage.