[Military] + [Finance] + [Factional Strife] + [Classic Web-Novel Style, Slow Burn]
After transmigrating to the fourth year of the Chongzhen reign, Wang Yuwen discovers that his father is one of the Three Notables of Shandong in the Donglin faction.
Faced with a house piled high with pledges of allegiance and elite troops from Liaodong outside, so hungry they would eat people, Wang Yuwen, a master's graduate in finance, makes a decision that goes against his family's ancestral teachings.
Other transmigrators take on the Shanxi merchants by sending in troops to raid their homes, leaving rivers of blood, only to be impeached to death by court censors.
Wang Yuwen takes them on by raising the Donglin faction's banner of moral integrity, monopolizing government policy, driving up grain prices, shorting salt permits, issuing war bonds, and blowing up the Shanxi merchants' financial lifelines with targeted strikes!
Jinan Guard: Young Master Wang, the men are out of pay again...
Wang Yuwen: What's there to panic about? Go fetch those young dandies from the Jiangnan Fushe. Today, I'll teach them what it means to raise angel funding for the Great Ming's first shell-company project!
Years later, when Huang Taiji sees the economy beyond the passes completely collapse and Wang family's private troops block the gates of Shengjing with cannon, he finally spits up a mouthful of blood.
"I thought the Donglin faction was supposed to ruin the country! How did they securitize the Great Ming's realm?!"
