Together in Daming

This is the story of an orphan who spends his life answering the question "How much is kindness worth?" In 1390, Chen Guanhai was born on the east coast of the Mediterranean. His parents died when he was two years old, and he grew up eating food from hundreds of families - Nestorians, Muslims, Jews, and Venetian sailors all fed him. When he was six years old, a middle-aged man riding a black horse asked him by the post road: "You can't read, why do you draw marks on the ground?" He replied: "I'm afraid of forgetting those people." The middle-aged man took off a silver ring: "With this ring, you can enter the Ming Dynasty Post House." Later he found out that it was Emperor Yongle. With this ring, he walked from the quicksand into the post house, established his identity from the shock of the Golden Palace of Samarkand, and created the first "shared tent" in the wind and snow of Hamiwei - accompanying the elderly in exchange for food. He completed the Silk Road and turned the border mutual aid experiment into a national currency system covering millions of people. When Jiangnan business gangs, conservatives in North Korea and China, and overseas financial alliances took turns to strangle him, he responded with only one sentence: "Flying tickets are not silver, they are cloth, food, and production capacity. You can control silver, but you cannot control people's hearts." This is a book about "remembering" - remembering every charity, every companionship, every person who passes by your life. When machines replace all production, the last currency humans have is the time they are willing to spend for each other.