In the sixth year of the Kangxi reign, Oboi held the court in his grip. Coastal residents had been forced inland for a thousand li, salt was scarce everywhere, and the people were suffering terribly.
Ye Ming'an transmigrated into the body of a fourth-rank county magistrate in Suixi County, and started with a terrible hand.
The old salt merchants had deep roots, the salt license system locked down the profits from salt across the empire, and the coastal relocation order had the shoreline gasping for air.
While everyone else was thinking about how to stay alive and keep their heads down, he brought out economic strategies from the future, built modern salt farms, and flooded Guangdong and Guangxi with low-cost government salt.
He used an unstoppable strategy to defuse one deadly threat after another.
At court, Oboi pressed forward at every turn, while Kangxi concealed his imperial ambitions. Beneath the surface, the emperor and his ministers were locked in a tense contest.
Demotions were an act. Promotions were a means of keeping each other in check.
While others fought for military power and territory, he used salt profits to fund a navy and brought Shi Lang out of retirement. With a single economic game plan, he stirred up the entire Qing maritime frontier!
Watch as a fourth-rank county magistrate uses his advanced economic insight to shake things up in the early years of Kangxi's reign and lay out an economic master plan no one can defeat.
