Dasheng Shangding

Shen Yan, a doctor of modern economic history, traveled back in time to the end of the Dasheng Dynasty and became the concubine of the Shen family, a salt merchant in the south of the Yangtze River. This coincided with the family's disaster: his father was framed by his in-laws, the Liu family, and imprisoned for "salt fraud." At this time, Dasheng's currency system collapsed, official bad currency was rampant, the gentry monopolized salt and iron, and hoarded hard currency, and the people's livelihood at the bottom was in decline. Relying on his knowledge of modern economics, Shen Yan used the principle of "bad money drives out good money" to privately mint copper coins of sufficient value to gain the trust of the refugees and solve their urgent needs. He then integrated the Jiangnan business gangs, broke the water transportation monopoly, improved the "Young Crop Law" to relieve the famine, and made friends with border guard generals to form a "business + military" force. Later, he went to Beijing to promote the reform of the salt and iron government, overthrew the traitor, and forced the northern barbarians to retreat with an economic blockade. In the end, he assisted the new emperor in promoting currency reform, establishing a government-run bank, and opening up maritime trade. As the "Business Prime Minister", he used his economic power to reshape the structure of Dasheng, and wrote a counterattack legend with rigorous logic and feelings of family and country.