In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, the Anshi Rebellion tore apart the illusion of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Shen Lingjia, the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Chang'an, became a lowly member of the religious community overnight.
She could hold the pipa strings, but she couldn't hold her fate - until she discovered the secret dyeing and weaving instructions left by her mother.
An inch of wrong gold brocade is worth thousands of gold. She exchanged it for the deregistration document and went south to Yangzhou. The loom is the knife and the abacus is the sword.
From a dilapidated dye house to a merchant fleet across the sea and land, from the brand of "originally an official slave" to an imperial merchant personally named by the emperor.
She rescued the Kunlun slaves, raised a female accountant, and built a female escort agency, so that they had skills to rely on and a way out in troubled times.
The marriage contract between the Qinghe Pei family, the cooperation of the Sogdian merchants, and the oath of the generals of the Forbidden Army - three men, three paths, she finally chose to face the power as equals.
This is not redemption, it is reconstruction.
When the world is still asking "How can a woman run a business?", Her golden sword has already measured the world.
