Rising from a Cake of Discarded Tea

[Farming and business novel] Cheng Rushan, a late Qing tea magnate, built a tea empire spanning north and south. He was fabulously wealthy, yet walked on thin ice as the dynasty approached its end. The authorities tightened the screws, while the local brotherhood came to his door demanding his life. He used his wits to contend with warlords and powerful local forces, all to protect his century-old enterprise.

But when the flames of revolution ignited, he resolutely chose a path with almost no chance of survival!

By day, he was a business tycoon moving among the powerful. By night, he was the revolutionaries’ biggest secret benefactor. Using his tea empire as cover, he smuggled weapons, passed along intelligence, and spent his entire fortune, all to bury an old era with his own hands.

When the “Golden Melon Tribute Tea,” a symbol of glory, turned to ash amid the flames of war, the empire he had built collapsed along with it. Faced with a newly born republic in ruins, he had lost everything, yet it seemed… he had won a future for his four hundred million countrymen.