Shen Yunshen, a doctor of modern economics, accidentally traveled to Tianjin dock in the 11th year of Guangxu's reign and became a penniless refugee. A mysterious silver spot appears on the fingertips - it turns out to be Shen Wansan's "account spirit" parasitism, issuing a death mission: within seven days, earn a hundred taels of silver with nothing.
Climbing out of the smelly ditch, he made waves in the business world of the late Qing Dynasty with his modern financial knowledge: he used the concept of futures to break the tea scam, restructured terminal logistics with supply chain thinking, and issued "cargo tickets" to establish the earliest private bank. Under the encirclement and suppression by the three forces of Shanxi merchants, compradors, and foreign banks, he held an abacus in his left hand and a gun in his right hand, fighting his way through the gap between the concession and the Caogang gang.
But this is not just a business war. The awakening of the account spirit revealed the terrifying truth: the Traveler Association split into the "Predatory Faction" and the "Observer Faction", which were using consciousness extractors to imprison the host, and even conspired to "replace" Beiyang's important ministers and tamper with the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1899. From an ant in Jinmen to a chess player, Shen Yunshen was forced to be involved in a battle for the survival of civilization that spanned time and space.
When the silver storm sweeps across the empire at dusk, he must make a choice between wealth, power and humanity: to become a hero who plunders history, or a businessman who ignites the fire of civilization?
Not bad, the plot is compact and fascinating.