Great Ming: From the Start, I Inherited Shen Yishi's Mess

Lin Yan, a top student in modern history, has transmigrated into the body of Shen Yishi, the doomed Jiangnan tycoon from Ming Dynasty 1566. Caught in the deadly "replace rice with mulberry" scheme, he uses modern financial thinking and his informational advantage to walk a razor's edge between the Yan faction, the upright officials, the Directorate of Ceremonial, local authorities, and imperial power. From a "doomed pawn" to the "economic overlord of Jiangnan," and then the "empire's moneybags," he ultimately achieves financial freedom and gets away unscathed from the meat grinder of imperial rule.