From the Start, I Was Seized of Everything, but I Turned the Tables with My Calculations

Shen Zhong, a modern financial whiz, wakes up to find he has transmigrated into the illegitimate son of a salt merchant in the Great Jin Dynasty, whose family has just been raided. All the family’s property has been confiscated, his father and older brother have been sentenced to execution after the autumn harvest, and the imperial envoy has ordered him to pay an astronomical salt tax within fifteen days. Otherwise, they’ll take his life too! Facing the hostile shopkeepers of the salt trade, the leaders of the grain barges and porters, and the many forces secretly coveting the Shen family’s holdings, Shen Zhong sneers. “Want to swallow my silver? Settle my accounts first!”