A Refreshing Breeze in East Lake

During the Kangxi period, Lin Dingshan, a scholar from a poor family in Donghu Village, Leizhou, shouldered the high expectations of his family and spent ten years in poverty before finally becoming a Jinshi. However, an anonymous post at Qionglin's banquet tied him to an old salt tax fraud case - the same old case in which his father was wronged and died. In order to seek the truth, Lin Dingshan voluntarily requested an order and went to the dangerous coastal areas of Fujian to serve as county magistrate. Powerful people are entrenched here, pirates are raging, and mysterious "Xianyu" silver is flowing in the shadows of the officialdom. On the way to his appointment, he took shelter from the rain in a dilapidated temple and came across an old servant named Chen who had left behind a motto: "Don't be greedy too much, take one piece of money and it will be worth tens of millions of gold." The threads of fate were quietly intertwined. In Fujian, Lin Dingshan got acquainted with Chen Moxuan (surname Chen) who hates evil but tolerates it because of family involvement; Zheng Canghai (surname Zheng), a maritime merchant who is proficient in maritime trade but is suppressed by the government; and Guo Wenyuan (surname Guo), a master who is smooth on the surface but still has conscience in his heart. The four of them formed an alliance in the turbulent times to clear their father-in-law's land, recover stolen money, and even touch upon the secrets of the past when "East Lake Village" was renamed to avoid banditry...