During the Tiansheng years, Lin Shuo, a hungry man, sold himself to bury his father and entered the family of Pei, a wealthy businessman in Luoyang.
Here, wealth flows through silk roads and cabinets, but the rules are set by blood and contracts. As a lowly person, he was originally a bead in the abacus that could be erased. Until a business crisis hit the Pei family and everyone was helpless, Lin Shuo relied on his innate talent in arithmetic and his ultimate insight into human relationships to come up with a plan that turned the situation around.
Since then, he has broken out a ray of light from the mud:
Use the technique of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" to reorganize corrupt accounts and attract the attention of the shopkeeper;
Use market wisdom to solve the dilemma of business war and win the trust of the prince;
Until new rules for "flying money" were created, financial resources flowed from left to right.
He turned stone into gold and pushed the Pei family to its peak. However, the thicker the credit book is, the heavier the paper of selling oneself will be. The money of the reward cannot buy freedom, and the praise of the master is just the care of the treasure.
When half of the prosperity of Luoyang City was in his hands, Lin Shuo finally faced the biggest dilemma in his life: he had created amazing value, but he was still a slave dependent on value.
This is a war between abacus and people's hearts among wealthy families. Not only does he want to gain wealth, but he also wants to question this era from its roots: Is a person's value determined by his identity or by everything he creates?
