Shen Jingzhou, a top modern corporate strategist, wakes after a celebratory banquet to find himself the “useless third young master” of Jiangnan’s wealthiest family in the Great Qi dynasty. From the start, his fiancée breaks off their engagement, family infighting closes in, northern nomads threaten the borders with their cavalry, and court officials cry out for ceding territory and making peace.
Everyone is waiting to laugh at this spoiled young master.
No one knows that his body is now home to a soul capable of using modern finance, industry, and military strategy to outclass the entire era.
Broken engagement? Perfect. Romance is the last thing you need when building a career.
His salt-trading licenses seized? He turns around and trades a gunpowder formula for a map of the Western Regions and a copper mine.
The nomads invade? Three hundred matchlock riflemen slaughter thirty thousand cavalrymen across the northern desert.
An empire from the Far West sends its fleet to his doorstep? One ironclad and a single broadside send its “invincible fleet” to the bottom of the sea.
While the court argues endlessly over “defending the homeland,” Shen Jingzhou has already set the nation’s policy: arm China and expand across the globe.
He will plant the Great Qi’s banner in every place whose name has yet to be recorded.
Wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever rivers flow, all shall be Chinese territory.
