Survival in the Late Ming Dynasty: Rise from the Salt Merchants

In 1628, the first year of Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty, the court suffered from internal and external troubles: Although Wei Zhongxian fell, the remnants of the eunuch party were still there; the Hou Jin Dynasty in Liaodong rose and repeatedly invaded the border; domestic civil unrest occurred frequently, and peasant uprisings were undercurrent; the Little Ice Age climate caused successive years of famine, and the people were displaced. The Ming Dynasty was in turmoil and on the verge of collapse. The protagonist travels through time and becomes the son of a small salt merchant in Yangzhou. Facing the coming troubled times, he must survive and develop in this turbulent era.