Water Transportation Situation

The river has lasted for thousands of years, but only a corner of Caoliang. This book takes the mid-Ming Dynasty as the historical background and Linqing, an important town on the Grand Canal as the stage, to tell the grand epic of the rise and fall of water transport, the ups and downs of power, and the intertwined fate of the family. The protagonist Song Qinian was originally a craftsman who dug the Tongji Canal. With his ingenuity, he entered the Caoliang trade route. After many ups and downs, he transformed the Song family into the leading business and political clan in Linqing. However, the path of luck can be open or blocked; what has been gained can also be counterattacked. In the chess game where imperial envoys, local gentry, and salt gangs intertwined, several generations of the Song family were involved in the storm. They had to protect their family and lineage, but they also had to deal with the temple, the rivers and lakes. Tongji has not yet dried up, but his lifeline is still inexhaustible. Wherever the boat goes, it is a microcosm of the ups and downs of people's hearts; beneath the thousands of sails, there is an undercurrent of prosperity and destruction of a country.