Direct Hundred Tribulations: Economic Spy Records of the Shu Han Dynasty

The Three Kingdoms' struggle for hegemony was more than just war. In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Chen Ji, a money minting official, discovered a bad coin in the fire, and was involved in a currency war across Wei, Shu and Wu. Counterfeit money was exchanged for food, smuggling on trade routes, and traitors secretly collaborating with the enemy. A craftsman abandons his furnace and travels far away, uses copper to solve the puzzle, and plays a thousand-mile game with the manipulator behind the scenes. In the autumn wind of Wuzhangyuan, he spends his life protecting the last economic lifeline of Shu Han.