The New Yin's Ocean Voyage: A Merchant's Tale

What if the Yin-Shang dynasty had not fallen after the Battle of Muye? What if, on the eve of his kingdom's destruction, Di Xin had entrusted the Dark Bird jade tally and the bronze troop-mobilization tally to Fu Yu, leader of the fleet? What if the Yin-Shang fleet of three rivers, with eighty-nine warships and 3,700 armored soldiers, had weighed anchor and sailed out to sea? What route should they take? Amid ten thousand miles of raging waves, how could they determine their position, calculate distance, and avoid hurricanes? What could they do about the rotting water tanks aboard their ships? If the fleet strayed off course and scattered, how could they find one another again? How should the ships be built? If shipworms bored into their hulls, how could the damage be repaired? If a storm tore their sails apart, what could replace them? The road ahead was fraught with danger: Zhou chariots in pursuit, epidemics spreading at sea, conservative nobles harboring resentment, and the festering bitterness of surviving soldiers who felt abandoned by their homeland. Upon reaching the New World, how could they build a state, starting from a temporary camp and gradually establishing a system of land ownership, household registration, criminal law, and ancestral temples? How could they introduce jade millet? How could they smelt copper and iron? How could they coexist with the natives? Should the ritual sacrifice of humans continue? This book imagines the history of Yin-Shang after an alternate Battle of Muye. There are no immortals or magical arts, and no transmigrating protagonist with cheat-like advantages. It relies solely on engineering research and rigorous logic to explore this historical what-if. What if the Dark Bird totem had truly crossed the Pacific? Originally titled “Sea Traders: The Dark Bird’s Voyage Across the Ocean,” it has been registered for copyright. This is an original, full-length novel written as a nautical journal. The entire manuscript is complete, and it is being serialized for free.