A Poor Scholar: Making Sugar from the Start and Shocking the Great Ming

After transmigrating to the late Ming during the Tianqi era, Ye Qizhang wants only to survive. But with no rice at home and relatives plotting against him, staying alive is his first great challenge. Fortunately, he has knowledge far ahead of his time and a heart that never gives up.

Starting with sugar refining and brewing, he gradually builds up his initial capital. He improves tools, streamlines production, establishes regulations, and hires workers... In his hands, the seeds of capitalism quietly take root. He funds new ideas, rewards inventions, opens up markets, and challenges the powerful...

All he wanted was to live a wealthy life, but before he knows it, he is standing at the crest of history, personally steering the twilight Ming Dynasty onto another sweeping and turbulent course.

This is the story of a transmigrator who changes the world through business.