In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong's reign, Yangzhou City.
When accounting clerk Shen Chiyan checked the salt seals, he discovered a batch of fake salt seals of unknown origin. He followed the clues and discovered that behind this fake salt quote, the Huang family, the largest salt merchant in Yangzhou, was involved - and the Huang family's backer was Heshen, the chief minister of the current dynasty.
What made him even more uneasy was that the Shen family's death overnight twenty years ago seemed to be vaguely related to this chain of interests. Why did grandfather Shen Wanfeng die? Where did the missing salt go?
Shen Chiyan entered the game alone, relying on his superb accounting skills to deal with various forces. He formed an alliance with the down-and-out salt merchant Huang Zongde, and with the support of the reformists, he promoted the transparency of salt administration, cracked down on illegal salt sales, and improved the situation of kitchen households. Every step is to seek skin from a tiger, and every step has to pay a price.
However, when the truth emerged bit by bit, he found that this battle was far more complicated than the numbers on the ledger - it was easy to clear the ledger, but difficult to clear the hearts of the people.
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