During the Chunyou period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou Port surpassed Guangzhou and became the world's largest maritime trade port. Merchant ships from all over the world gathered, people from ten continents were in the market, and spices and silver surged like a tide.
Chen Wenhan, after the decline of Confucian merchants, worked as a street boy in the spice shop on Jubao Street. His father died in a shipwreck, and his widowed mother raised him on a bowl of noodle paste. All his assets are a pair of discerning eyes and a heart unwilling to sink.
Starting from a piece of ambergris, he stepped into the deepest pool of water in Quanzhou - wealthy merchants, merchant officials, pirates and Japanese pirates, clan forces, and the exiled court of the Southern Song Dynasty. He built the best ships and formed the farthest fleet, covering Champa, Srivijaya, and the Persian Gulf. He becomes both enemy and friend with the Persian businesswoman Ayesha, gets along well with Zhao Shijin, a daughter of a troubled clan, and goes from cooperation to breakup with the maritime business tycoon Pu Shougeng.
When the Southern Song Dynasty overthrew and the Yuan army moved south, Quanzhou stood at a historical crossroads. Chen Wenhan, a young man who came out of the streets of Jubao, will protect Citong City in his heart amidst the stormy waves.
A Maritime Silk Road, a Quanzhou version of "The Red-Roofed Businessman".
