I Went to the Great Ming to Become a Landowner

A storm that swallowed a ten-thousand-ton ship hurled him into the abyss of the fifth year of the Zhengde era of the Ming Dynasty.

Lin Xuan, a modern ocean-going freighter's chief mate, miraculously survives the raging waves of the Pacific, only to discover that he's become another Lin Xuan: a dissolute young master from the Lin family village in Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi, despised by everyone and about to be drowned in a pond!

From the start, he's in a hopeless situation! His family is dirt poor, his reputation is in tatters, his debts are mounting, and his clan is watching like a hawk, ready to drown him in a freezing pool!

**At death's door, a “Gate of the Azure Sea” opens deep within his soul!**

Beyond the gate is his sunken, ten-thousand-ton freighter, the Ocean Voyager! Time is frozen at the moment before it capsized. Containers packed with every kind of treasure, mountains of food, delicacies in the freezer, sharp tools, rare medicines, even the crew's knickknacks... The treasures of modern industrial civilization become his only lifeline in this desperate situation!

With a single “underworld ration” biscuit and a sailor's knife, he stages a “miraculous resurrection” and strikes fear into his clan!

From a pond-drowning demon to a “reformed rogue,” every step Lin Xuan takes is fraught with danger. With this “mobile treasure trove” that has crossed the boundaries of time, he must carve out a path to survival in the decaying and perilous Ming Dynasty of the Jiajing era!

Refined salt turns to gold! Glassware fetches its weight in gold!

Chili peppers and sweet potatoes quietly rewrite a thousand years of agricultural history!

Modern medicine saves lives and wins hearts!

A tiny voice recorder becomes a deadly weapon for taking down the powerful!

Through the ups and downs of the business world, he builds a commercial empire richer than any other;