An accident caused Shen Yan, a graduate student in the Department of History, to travel back in time to the early years of Qianlong's reign. At that time, the Qing court's proposal to ban the sea was intensifying. Powerful officials gathered together to complain, and private maritime merchants were in panic. The shadow of seclusion had shrouded the entire China, and a century of humiliation was about to begin.
As a visitor from another world who carries the memories of future generations for hundreds of years, Shen Yan knows better than anyone that once the national lockdown order is issued, China will be out of touch with the world and will eventually become a lamb to be slaughtered. He did not want to sit back and watch the tragedy happen, and since then he has lost his youthfulness as a scholar. He has used what he has learned to work step by step, vowing to reverse this destined fate.
He hid in the market, connected the suppressed maritime merchant forces, and exposed the conspiracy of government and businessmen to collude and use the forbidden sea for personal gain; he sneaked into the court to refute the stubborn opinions of powerful ministers with accurate knowledge of later generations and feasible trade strategies, shaking the emperor's dream of a heavenly kingdom; he traveled along the coast, built new shipyards, taught advanced navigation technology, and broke the absurd perception that "sea ban means peace."
The exclusion from the court, the pursuit by the old forces, and the confusion of the world could not stop him from moving forward. From a scholar from another world that no one cares about, to a disruptor who stirs up the chaos between the government and the public and controls the lifeblood of the coast, Shen Yan single-handedly fights against the occlusion and stubbornness of the entire era.
Is the Qing government going to lock down the country? He breaks the situation with actual performance and protects with wisdom. Do the old forces want to stick to the old rules? He opened the way with new knowledge and broke through the walls with courage. This time, visitors from another world play chess, no longer letting China be trapped in a small area, vowing to reopen the country, let China set sail, and rewrite the fate of a hundred years of decline!
