A senior student at HNA University, Jin Ling came here in the first year of Jingyou in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Empress Liu E of Zhang Xianmingsu passed away, and Song Renzong, who was 24 years old at the time, took charge of the government personally. He was full of ambitions and wanted to flourish the country.
At this time, famous officials gathered in the court hall:
Yan Shu, forty-three years old, had just become the privy envoy and took charge of the military affairs of the world. Fan Zhongyan, forty-six years old, had been demoted again because he was outspoken and dared to remonstrate.
Ouyang Xiu, twenty-seven years old, had recently won the Jinshi Scholarship. He was very high-spirited and his articles had already spread in the capital.
The next generation of Ming Dynasty Prime Minister Han Qi was only twenty-six years old. He was a seventh-rank official in Kaifeng, but he was upright and judged cases clearly, and he had already distinguished himself in the capital.
Bao Zheng is 35 years old and has just entered the official service.
This is the best of times. The people are open, Renzong is benevolent, the dynasty is full of famous ministers, and the people are prosperous. It is also the worst of times. There is the Liao Kingdom in the north, and the Xixia Dynasty is lurking in the abyss in the west. Storms are coming.
The Jin family is a shipping family. Last year, my father, uncle, and eldest brother went to Tianzhu to do business and anchored in Gulingang, waiting for the windy season to return.
But he never returned. In October, as the last sea ship returned, it brought bad news. The Jin family's ship was caught in a storm offshore, and the people and cargo sank into the deep sea. Even the wreckage could not be found.
That ship's cargo was worth sixteen thousand guan. Now that the ship sank and the cargo was lost, the family's wealth was wiped out. Regardless of the old relationship between the two families, the Chen family led a group of servants to come to collect debts, hoping to take away the Jin family's sea certificate passed down from generation to generation.
Fortunately, my grandfather Pan's family intervened and suppressed the matter. The family spent all their real estate and property, women's jewelry, and redeemed a medium-sized seagoing ship at home. This was the only remaining capital of the family. They burned the boat and staked all their wealth and life on this last trip.
When the ship was about to set off, the captain responsible for navigation and direction determination was poached by the Chen family. Jin Ling had to disguise herself as a woman and was ordered to board the ship in danger. Unexpectedly, four hundred years earlier, the age of navigation began. The four seas were bounded by borders and merchant ships spread all over the world.
*It can be regarded as an upgrade to the cool novel, focusing on the career line. It has a male protagonist and many male supporting characters, such as a handsome Indian boy, an Arabian prince, and many single arrows.