Reborn in the 1980S: The Backstreet Trader's Road to Riches

My new book, Great Ming: I Only Wanted to Make Money, So Why Did You Dress Me in an Imperial Robe?, is now online. Please show it your support. [Double transmigration + System + spatial storage + making money + farming + technological dominance + conquest] A nobody with a single-minded desire for wealth is swept up in the tide of the times while doing business in the Great Ming. Forced to fight back, he ultimately leads the dynasty to new heights. Cheng Shuxiang, who runs a failing spice shop, happens upon a System that lets him transmigrate to the late Great Ming. His stockpile of spices provides his first pot of gold. As he builds his business along the Grand Canal, he faces pressure from the White Lotus Sect, the Canal Gang, merchant guilds, officials, and other factions. To make money, Cheng Shuxiang wages a series of battles. In the end, he defeats the Dutch and takes control of the Spice Islands, inadvertently sending the Great Ming down a very different path. Zhang Xiaohai is reborn on the day he is falsely accused of rape. He chews up the benevolence and righteousness that choked him to death in his previous life, and rebuilds his relationships according to his own standards of justice. There is no referee's stand in the martial world, only tables waiting to be overturned. Flip the table hard enough, and all the meat on it will fall right into your bowl. If you want to change your fate after being reborn, you have to carve out a path through the tides of the times with a blade. A man's comeback has never been just about business battles. Under the dim streetlights, his shadow draws its knife before he does. Three knives are tucked into his waistband. One cuts through his own cowardice and regrets, one carves out his enemy's heart, and one presses against the throat of the times.