Zhang Jingming, a modern investment banking elite, suddenly died at the scene of a tens of billions of mergers and acquisitions and was reborn as the son of a Zhejiang salt merchant in the late Jiajing period. Faced with the crisis of raging Japanese pirates, outflow of silver, and strict party corruption, he used a financial scalpel to dissect the empire's stubborn diseases, created a reserve system to solve the fiscal deficit, designed salt futures to revitalize anti-Japanese military needs, and ignited the spark of the stock exchange in Yingtianfu; When double-entry bookkeeping collided with Confucian ethics, and when the patent system shook the imperial examination system, Zhang Jingming was forced to deal with Hu Zongxian's military tent, Yan Shifan's banquet, and Matteo Ricci's laboratory. Hai Rui's ruler hung high above his head, Qi Jiajun's blade opened the way for him, and the blood-stained Japanese pirate map in the middle of the account book pointed to the irrefutable evidence of the collusion between Yan Dang and Japan. The life-and-death struggle between financial capital and feudal royal power, the impact of gear bearings on the dimensionality reduction of farming civilization, when the telegraph room in the Forbidden City rang the news of the North American colonies, Zhang Jingming stood under the dome of Constantinople and smiled, the sun never sets in the empire, finally rising from the east...
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Oh (◔_◔), I was speechless, and finally turned into a deep sigh, I don't deserve to read such an awesome novel.
Oh (◔_◔), I was speechless, and finally turned into a deep sigh, I don't deserve to read such an awesome novel.