A Ming Dynasty Huizhou Merchant: Ruling the Four Seas

In 1625, the fifth year of the Tianqi era of the Great Ming, and the tenth year of the Later Jin’s Tianming era.

That year, Nurhaci united the Jurchen tribes, moved the capital to Shenyang, and renamed it Shengjing.

That year, Xiong Tingbi, who had administered Liaodong three times, was framed and executed by Wei Zhongxian. His head was sent to the Nine Frontiers, and the case against him was used to implicate the Donglin Party. The Six Gentlemen of Donglin were imprisoned, the party was utterly crushed, and the eunuch faction dominated the court.

That year, Jiang He transmigrated from a later era and became the second son of the Jiang family, a Huizhou merchant clan in She County in the late Ming. He started a newspaper, trained new troops, took on the Shanxi merchants, entered the court, and destroyed the Later Jin... Thus began his tumultuous life, as he made his mark across the land.