In the seventeenth year of Yongchang, the Dasheng Dynasty had unrest on the sea frontier, the salt administration was corrupt, and the villagers were miserable. Chen Du accidentally fell into the sea in modern times and woke up in the Canglang Salt Fields on the southeast coast of Dasheng Dynasty. He is the son of Zaohu, his parents are dead, and he is in debt to the Salt Division. He cooks salt from the sea every day under the scorching sun, and there are salt lords and greedy officials who are eyeing him behind him.
Salt is the lifeblood of the imperial court and a bloody business. Chen Du relied on modern knowledge to improve the method of cooking salt, but it touched many layers of interests. Private salt dealers wanted to recruit him into their gang, the ambassador of the Salt Department wanted to swallow his skills, and even the mysterious sea dwellers cast their eyes on the salt spoon in his hand. In the deep sea fog outside the Canglang Saltworks, there are even legends about shipwrecks and salt and silver treasures from previous dynasties...
Chen Du just wanted to live, but he unknowingly got involved in the most turbulent undercurrent of the Dasheng Dynasty.
