[Outline-style synopsis, very long. Not recommended. Just read the story.]
That year, Huang Chuangong completed The Essentials of Ship Compartments:
"Thanks to the compartmentalized watertight bulkhead design of the Fuchuan, a secret compartment can be made beneath the partitions, near the keel, for transporting goods."
At first, this design was meant to address the tribute ships' lack of cargo capacity.
But... anyone with a bit of sense could see that it was a genius smuggling scheme.
Just then, a new superintendent arrived in Fujian at the Maritime Trade Office. Someone presented him with the book, and Huang Jia thought she could finally bring the fruits of her labor to life. She never imagined it would unleash a catastrophe.
The Maritime Trade Office used smuggling as a pretext to rake in money on a massive scale, sparking the Tribute Trade Conflict.
The unrest lasted for two years, leaving immense damage and far-reaching consequences. Land consolidation worsened in the southeast, and the landless took to the sea as pirates.
After the unrest was put down, Huang Jia's only relative was brutally killed.
She withdrew from worldly affairs and retreated to the mountains.
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The past lay across the sea, and the political landscape changed.
In late autumn, seven years later, the Court's Water Transport Bureau forced Huang Jia out of seclusion to build ships. But she had long since lost the ambition she once had. All she wanted was to keep her head down and get by.
But as she lay low, she discovered that...
The court had supposedly destroyed the ships she modified back then, yet their masts could still be seen across the rivers, lakes, and seas, and the trade they enabled had never stopped.
The governor's office sent troops to raid the Maritime Trade Office, but found only a few hundred taels of silver, nowhere near the eighty million taels recorded in the books.
The enormous fortune amassed by the superintendent during the turmoil had vanished without a trace.
And so Huang Jia began living like Tang Sanzang.
Everyone thought she was carrying a "prize cut."
Some even suspected that the reason she survived back then was that some powerful figure had protected her.
"Your uncle lived in seclusion for many years, but returned to Fujian suddenly last year. In all that time, other than officials from the Maritime Trade Office, he met only you. Why do you think that was?"
The vanished fortune, the cryptic will, the eight-year promise at Longshan Temple...
As it turned out, everything was only just beginning.
Ming Dynasty + water transport + Maritime Trade Office
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Now updating: Going Among the Officials
Theme: A lone gull roamed the rivers and seas all his life, while in the capital he chased after power like a tumbleweed.
How did Lao Lu capture Huang Gong's heart? Why did he not resist here at first, and the change was a little quick. Although I'm very tired from working part-time, it's really nice to have a man come and relax 🐶
Damn, your relationship line is as good as quitting the fight 😭
Boil the sea and turn it into sand. Update soon! I'm so anxious!
This chapter focuses on depicting the plot of Lao Jiang falling in love with Huang Gong with one arrow, being shocked by the second arrow, and using his life for three arrows. This plot has deepened Lao Jiang's obsession with Huang Gong. Applause!!! It's a pity that Huang Gong is not an emperor and can't have the best of both worlds. What a shame!!! Why! 😭 😭 😭
It turns out that the male protagonist is the Son of Destiny with that ridiculous routine. It's so bloody. Hahaha. Oh my god, Lu? Leng Bingning? Love Language? Meng? East Tower
Lao Lu, I learned from you that falling in love only takes one step. As long as you confess your love, it's a success. [Joker] [Joker] even hugged you [eyes rolled] [eyes rolled]
I'm a little excited. Huang Gong is really going to build a big ship again. In addition, Lu Donglou's intention became clear, and he felt relieved that he finally confessed his love. Although the physical contact is very exciting, from Huang Gong's perspective, this person is too strong, and life and death are in his hands. When will Lao Jiang come back to stir things up, and then give a harsh word in prison to make the heroine follow him, and that's it? No wonder I can't be the male protagonist 🐶 🐶 [spreading flowers]
I think this article is good for being illusory, but it is not good for clarifying the mid-term. The author shouldn't be from the coastal areas of Fujian, right? I think the reason why the author wrote about officialdom is because he implicitly assumes that everyone will listen to the government and the government can impose sanctions if they want, haha. . . Actually. . . Even now, there are still many so-called feudal era religions and clans left in Fujian, which are completely different from the official culture of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Do you know how Fujian people did business before reform and opening up? It's not just a desperate move. I read in the previous chapter that a businessman broke the rules by wearing silk. From the perspective of the heroine, if he is caught, he will be punished? Hehe. Too funny. To put it another way, is the rule about wearing silk really correct? Do the officials have the power to arrest him? At that time, the maritime merchants had power, money, backing and troops, and they were about to separate the capital. How did Zhu Wan, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, commit suicide? Where did Zheng Chenggong get such huge power? The author really thinks too highly of these officials, especially those in the Ming Dynasty. They are busy fighting among themselves and do not have the means or ability to check and balance the clans in Fujian. The power of the clans is so powerful that people who have not experienced it can hardly imagine it. Officials are also busy making money and are corrupt. Everyone has their own selfish motives. Who is the saint? It is recommended to reduce the length of Fujian, otherwise it will be too vain. . . . Let's change it to an empty one.
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After reading it, I felt that the officials were unkind and unjust, and the people were miserable and lonely. The heroine is either injured or on the way to being framed. It's tragic, it's so tragic. The heroine is miserable, and the people are miserable. It can be said that all the officials in this article were hanged on the beheading rack and it is not unjust at all.