Cangming Zhuolang: My Record of Water Transportation

In the seventh year of Jinghe, Lin Dan, a poor student from a poor family, was a high school scholar. However, because there was no one in the court, he was demoted to the turbulent Caoyun Yamen and served as a lowly judge. He thought he would have no chance of power in this life, but with his photographic memory and extreme acumen for numbers, he glimpsed a shocking secret in the whirlpool of the empire's lifeblood. On the canal, there are many canals and boats, transporting not only food and wages, but also endless greed and murderous intent. The slightest deviation in the ledger hides the loss of tens of thousands of silver; the elusive "ghost ship" in the foggy river section leaves behind a terrifying mystery of the mysterious death of the crew; the small officials who tried to expose the shady story were brutally silenced one after another and died in strange ways. The war in the north is tense, and the empire's finances are being drained. All of this seems to point to a dark network woven by the canal. Lin Dan was walking on thin ice. Suppressed by superiors, shunned by colleagues, local powerful men and Cao Gang giants are eyeing him. He had to navigate between the wine table, the accounting room, and the dock, using the abacus as a sword and data as a shield to fight back through the gaps in the rules of officialdom. With the instigation and foundation of reform, fatal disasters followed. At the same time, he got acquainted with Su Liuying, the daughter of the Cao Clan boss, but he didn't know that she was responsible for guarding the secret of the dragon's veins in the "Cangming Division". The two had to make difficult choices between use and true love, family and country and self-interest. The treasures of the former dynasty buried at the bottom of the river, the mastermind hiding in the court, the grain crisis related to the national war... Layers of waves are coming. This is a canal full of copper odor, blood and conspiracy, and it is also a shortcut to the top of power. Watch how a lowly official from a poor family can peel off the cocoon, solve strange cases, and behead traitors in the turbulent waves.