Shen Yan was originally a modern ordinary person who knew some common sense about engineering, business, management, and history, but he was not an omniscient and omnipotent genius. After an accident, he traveled to a small county in the south of the Yangtze River during the last years of Wanli, and became a scholar whose family was in decline.
During this period, the Ming Dynasty was prosperous on the surface, but in reality there were undercurrents: party disputes, taxation, border troubles, refugees, business gangs, eunuchs, the Liaodong crisis, and financial collapse were all approaching little by little. The male protagonist starts from a powerless little man, relies on modern thinking to make money, trains soldiers, befriends the gentry, defeats corrupt officials, and finally enters the court to help the Ming Dynasty turn around from decay.
