Great Ming: My Ledger Makes the Embroidered Guard Draw Their Blades

In the final, corrupt years of the Ming, power comes from two things: the vermilion brush in the emperor’s hand and the Embroidered Spring Sabers at the waists of the Imperial Guards.

But Chen Jue shows the world there is a third: the abacus.

He is merely a lowly clerk in the salt administration, yet he can send the Imperial Guards sweeping across the land to seal warehouses and lock down cities. He is unarmed, yet he keeps the “Shadow God of Wealth” who controls the Huai region awake at night.

While everyone else is bewildered by mountains of forged ledgers, he needs only to examine the age of the paper and the darkness of the ink to bring corrupt officials to their knees.

When everyone thinks the trail has gone cold, he uses a dead man to pry open an entire web of interests that stretches across the sky.

His battlefield is not a field of flashing blades.

It lies in the fine distinctions between accounts and the human heart.

The world knows only that the Embroidered Spring Saber can cut flesh. It does not know that every bead on Chen Jue’s abacus can ring out the death of a traitor and decide the fate of the realm!