Jing Tao Fu: Pingtan Merchant

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the sea was strictly prohibited, and huge waves from the imperial revolution crashed on the coast of Fujian. Lin Haisheng, a seventeen-year-old boy from Pingtan, was forced to shoulder the burden of the family's smuggling business after his father died in a police raid. From a young sailing boy with only courage, he gradually transformed into a generation of tycoon who was well versed in the ways of government and business and was good at weaving webs and layouts. However, the torrent of history goes far beyond the storm at sea. Faced with the most severe "border relocation order" in history, Lin Haisheng led his tribe to Fuqing, and then to Taiwan. After taking root in Taiwan, he was handed over to his eldest son Lin Huaiyuan, who grew up between exile and new soil. Lin Huaiyuan was no longer just the bearer of his father's career, but also an entrepreneur who regrouped and opened up new prospects on the island of Taiwan under the new order of the Qing court. He must use the wisdom and resilience he learned from his father to find a place for his family in an unfamiliar bureaucratic system and complex geographical structure. As for the third generation Lin Xiangyang, he grew up in relative stability, but he faced a more profound myth: his family's roots are in Pingtan, but his soul has been sent to Taiwan; he is nominally a citizen of the Qing Dynasty, but his blood is filled with the genes of merchants across the ocean. He is determined to achieve great things, but he must re-explore what is the true spiritual destination of Pingtan Shipping people in the millennium pattern of "scholars, farmers, industry and commerce" and the new tide of the times. Through the ups and downs of three generations of the Lin family - the founders, pioneers and pursuers - spanning nearly sixty years, this book unfolds an epic story of the survival of little people in the huge waves of history.