Power Realm: Thirty-Six Strategies

Lin Yuantu, a warehouse ambassador waiting to die in the Chongming Saltworks during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Faced with the triple fatal situation of the Japanese pirate blade, the corruption of his boss, and the frame-up by his colleagues, a "Thirty-Six Strategies" suddenly unfolded in his mind. [Concealing the truth], he altered the account books and turned the deficit into achievements, which was appreciated by the censor. [Killing with a Borrowed Knife], he cleverly planned to eliminate the hegemon, annexed 3,000 acres of fertile land, and earned his first pot of gold. [Secretly Visiting Chencang], in the name of fighting against Japanese invaders, he raised private soldiers and became the "King of Hell" in Songjiang Prefecture that no one dared to offend. Yan Song, Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng... He circled among the giants, and he always followed the pulse of the times every time he took sides. From the Lianghuai Salt Fields to the Southeast Customs, from the Nanjing Ministry of Industry to the Zhejiang Anti-Japanese Frontline. On the surface, he was Emperor Wanli's financial advisor, but secretly he was the uncrowned king who controlled half of the empire's maritime trade. When the butcher's knife of liquidation finally fell, Lin Yuantu, who was in prison, looked at the three words "Wolf Turns Back" on the wall and smiled. "The rules of the game in Ming Dynasty's officialdom were written by me myself."