In the sixth year of Chongzhen's reign, grain prices in Huolu County were rising day by day.
Shen Yan was originally a young shopkeeper in a grain store on East Street. He just wanted to save a fortune in troubled times by selling grain at a fair price and being careful, and then flee south with his family.
But the more he wanted to hide, the more he couldn't.
The magistrate wanted to use him to keep prices down, the gentry wanted to use him to buy shops, the bandits wanted to use him to supply food, and the people wanted to use him to survive.
He thought he was doing business, but in fact he had already been involved in a larger web.
Drought, locust plague, plague, bandits, when the living space becomes narrower and narrower, and when the county seat can no longer be defended, where should Shen Yan go?
