Late Ming Financial Empire

Type: Historical time travel/Business struggle/Dynasty struggle for supremacy Era background: From the fifteenth year of Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty to the tenth year of Kaiyuan of the New Dynasty Main tags: financial practitioners, troubled times in the late Ming Dynasty, business empire, agrarian revolution, dynasty change In one sentence: a modern financial practitioner traveled through the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, used food stamps, bonds, options and balance sheets to tear a bloody path between the bandits, the army and the Manchus, and finally used finance as the sword to rebuild the country. Theme of the work: This is a story about credit. In the late Ming Dynasty, when silver was flowing out in large quantities and deflation was spreading, the credit system of the entire society had completely collapsed - the government broke its trust with the people, the landlords broke their trust with their tenants, and the merchants broke their trust with the market. What Lu Chen has to do is to rebuild credit on this ruins. A food stamp circulates because someone believes it can be honored. An army can fight because some people believe that war merits will be rewarded. A dynasty can be established because someone believes that tomorrow will be better. As for credit, it takes ten years to build it and only one day to destroy it. Lu Chen spent his whole life protecting this thing that was more valuable than gold. When he died, people found a line of words on the back of his epitaph. It was not any posthumous title or eulogy, but a sentence that would be familiar to future generations of financial practitioners - "This bill is accepted by the Imperial Finance Department of China and is payable on sight. Credit will last forever."