The First Creditor in Troubled Times

In the last years of Dasheng, natural disasters occurred all over the place, the court broke its promise, wealthy families hoarded grain, and princes gathered troops. Cities can be breached, land can be taken away, and the banknotes in your hand can become useless paper overnight. Shen Yan, a small accountant in Qingxi County, got a "future account book" that could see the rise and fall of the next ten years when his father disappeared and his family was in debt. He saw—— The hungry deserters will gather 40,000 soldiers in three years, shocking the North Plains; A poor river worker can control floods and save 300,000 people in five years; A thirteen-year-old boy among the refugees will make half the world a vassal in nine years. But the account book will not send money or food, nor will it tell him how to win. Therefore, Shen Yan used the remaining thirty shi of grain as capital to lend them a bowl of porridge, a piece of deed, and a chance to survive when he was at his lowest. Purchasing bad debts, revitalizing abandoned fields, rebuilding grain roads, supporting workshops, operating trade routes... When the princes competed for the city, he had quietly taken hold of their grain, weapons and credit. However, as Shen Yan changed the future again and again, the handwriting on the account books began to be constantly altered. The heroes who were worthy of investment in the past may become beasts that slaughter cities; Good deeds that are supposed to save people may also lead to greater disasters; And the credit he has established with his own hands will one day become the common enemy of all the old forces in the world. If this troubled world is a bad debt that no one can pay off—— Then he would re-establish the rules so that debtors in the world would have a way to repay, those who kept their word would benefit, and those noble princes would understand: Soldiers and horses can buy a city, but trust can buy the whole world.