Shen Zhou, twenty-eight years old, a junior clerk in the Revenue Division of the Ministry of Revenue.
A financial analyst from the modern era, transmigrated into the body of an ancient bureaucrat.
What could he do?
He knew double-entry bookkeeping, credit expansion, and risk hedging, not the Four Books and Five Classics.
He wielded an abacus, government bills, and institutional design, not swords or political schemes.
He was making a cross-temporal arbitrage, slotting the rules of modern finance into the body of an ancient dynasty.
What did he do?
He collected debts from the Prince of Xin's household, pulling off a deal without spending a penny.
He audited the imperial estates and brought down the empress's relatives.
He reformed the granaries, leaving grain thieves nowhere to hide.
He issued government bills and rebuilt the court's credit.
He reformed the salt trade and broke a monopoly that had lasted a century.
He made a dynasty get down on its knees and beg him for a loan.
Then he made that dynasty understand:
Some rules last longer than power.
He could not fight and had no interest in political scheming, but he could make a dynasty get down on its knees and beg him for a loan.
This introduction. At first glance, it looks like it was imitated by AI. This author is too lazy to do anything. If he is so lazy, he needs AI to write whatever else he writes for you.