The modern double champion known as "Xiao" was a business mastermind and an elite special forces operative in the shadows. After sacrificing his life, he woke up in the Northern Song Dynasty in the fifth year of the Xining era, reborn as a sickly boy in Yuhou Street, Chenzhou, whose family had nothing and whose creditors were at the door.
The salt shop is about to be seized, the mule business is on the verge of collapse, his mother weeps, and local tyrants come to their door. As Wang Anshi's reforms sweep across the land, the ancient Hunan-Guangdong road hides both opportunity and danger.
"You want to play business warfare with me? I was playing with capital while you were reading the Biographies of the Merchants."
"You want to fight me? I've killed more people than you've seen blood."
A special forces operative's skills break through the dead ends, while modern business acumen lets him build an empire from nothing. Coarse salt becomes "Snow of the Chen River," discarded glass becomes "Light of the Seas," the ancient Hunan-Guangdong road becomes the fastest artery, and the docks on the Chen River answer to me. I establish the Listening Wind Pavilion to command information across the realm, issue Chenzhou Flying Notes to control the lifeblood of finance, recruit the canal gangs, ally with maritime merchants, build ships, and infiltrate the court.
From a rundown salt shop on Yuhou Street to a hidden empire connecting the Central Plains with lands overseas, I seek neither titles nor power. I only want to use these hands, stained by gunpowder and copper rust, to build a true commercial nation a thousand years in the past.
Hard-hitting business warfare and special forces tactics, as modern capitalist thinking overwhelms the Northern Song Dynasty.
