Frog Crowing: I Built an Island in Daming

1568, The second year of Longqing (1568). In Sanjiang Office, Shanyin County, Shaoxing Prefecture, a military boy named Lu Xing learned the first thing: settling accounts. You can't live without settling accounts. A soldier from a military household—who goes to Liaodong to die? A whip method can be used to convert silver - there is a 40% difference between the official price and the market price. Who can take the 40%? The number of acres of grassland in the yellow book is the number in the Hongwu year. The tide has eaten half of it but the book has not been changed. Changing the book is a crime, but taking advantage of the loopholes is not. This is a history of survival in the late Ming Dynasty written with an abacus instead of a sword. No time travel, no golden fingers. There are only philistine minds, cracks in the system, and 77 years in exchange for two lives.