The Ming Dynasty's God of Wealth: From Hongwu to Yongle

Chen Mo, a financial whiz, transmigrates overnight into a condemned prisoner in the Hongwu-era imperial prison. With economic insight far ahead of its time and extraordinary calculating ability, he narrowly survives Zhu Yuanzhang's executioner's blade. A series of financial reforms lets him shake the foundations of the empire, but he becomes caught in a maelstrom of imperial suspicion and court infighting. As the flames of the Jingnan Campaign rise, he coolly lays his plans, staking everything on the Prince of Yan's residence in Beiping and waging a covert war at the Jianwen court. When the Yongle era begins, he takes charge of the empire's economic affairs, creating the legendary trade voyages to the Western Oceans with one hand and supporting the monumental project of moving the capital to Beijing with the other, reaching the very pinnacle of power. Yet an emperor's mind is as deep as the sea, and his achievements threaten to overshadow the throne. How can he use his wits to plot his way through three reigns, from Hongwu to Yongle, and finally retire in triumph as the true anonymous god of wealth? This is the ultimate contest of intelligence and power, an epic legend spanning the turbulent early years of the Great Ming.