Ten years ago, Shen Jingyan, the maritime governor who advocated opening up sea trade, was framed by Yan Song and the Cao Gang for treason and treason. The Shen family of 371 members was killed in Jinling West City overnight. The only youngest son, Shen Jinglan, was rescued by a loyal servant and broke his left leg. He went into hiding under the pseudonym Shen Yan and hid at the bottom of the Jinling Water Transport Terminal.
In the past ten years, under the name "Tingchao Pavilion", he gathered all the people who were forced to die by the sea ban, opened up all the underground sea lines on the southeast coast, and became the master of underground maritime merchants under the sea ban.
In the seventeenth year of Jinghe's reign, the plum rain soaked the bluestone of Jinling Pier. In order to please Yan Song, the Cao Gang raised the price of water transportation so much that they forced the brothers to die. Shen Yan's dormant period ended. Using his identity as a lame coolie as a cover, he took action step by step: first, he cut off the Jinling grain route of the Cao Gang and overthrew its Jiangnan branch; then, with the help of Lu Zhengliu, the governor of the Cao Gang, he dug out ironclad evidence that the Cao Gang had embezzled the treasury; he went back layer by layer, and finally overthrew the chief minister Yan Song, overturned the case for the Shen family, forced the Yong Dynasty to abolish the maritime ban, and opened up the sea for trade, so that millions of people in the southeast could finally ride the waves.
