He wakes up in the Ming dynasty.
The imperial examinations have been abolished, and his career in government is over. Now a vicious servant has come to sell his younger sister to pay off a debt?
It is hellish difficulty from the start!
Faced with vicious debt collectors, he just smiles. With a handful of yellow clay and a bowl of charcoal ash, he turns brown sugar fit for pigs into snow-white granulated sugar worth a fortune, leaving everyone astonished!
Faced with officials coming to take his life, he cites the classics and dresses modern chemistry up as the pursuit of knowledge through the investigation of things, turning danger into opportunity!
But just as the vicious dogs retreat, tigers and wolves arrive. Jiangning's local kingpin sets a trap at a banquet, threatening and tempting him in an attempt to steal his secret recipe and silence him for good!
Gu Zhengchen sits calmly at the table, chatting and laughing amid the murderous tension.
“Master Zhang, do you think white sugar is the only thing in my head? There are glass lamps that can make the night as bright as day, fruit wine more fragrant than the finest nectar, and mechanical devices that can travel a thousand li in a day... Are you really going to kill the goose that lays golden eggs over a single egg?”
See how Gu Zhengchen, an impoverished scholar who passed the imperial examinations, starts with a bowl of thin porridge and uses technology and strategy far ahead of his time to move the entire Ming dynasty and usher in a golden age of his own!
