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

The Battle of Muye did not bring the Shang dynasty to an end. King Wu Ding and his queen, Fu Hao, had already laid out an escape route for the Shang people. On the eve of the kingdom's fall, King Zhou, Di Xin, entrusted the Black Bird jade token and the bronze troop-mobilization tally to Fu Yu, heir to the fleet. More than a hundred ships carrying thousands of people from the clan set sail from the Three Rivers fleet, embarking on an epic transoceanic voyage in ancient times.

Across ten thousand miles of raging seas, the ancient ships sailed far from home. The fleet navigated by the stars, calculated its course, and battled hurricanes, shipworm, and storms that tore their sails to shreds. The ships were scattered, then struggled to reunite across the boundless ocean. Pursuers followed in their wake, epidemics ravaged the fleet, conservative nobles harbored ambitions of their own, and surviving soldiers carried the bitterness of a shattered homeland. The ancestors reached a new continent. Starting with a fortified camp, they reclaimed the wilderness, smelted copper and cast tools, built a state, established land distribution, household registers, criminal laws, and ancestral temples, and introduced jade corn, all while contending with the indigenous tribes.

An epic tale of alternate pre-Qin history, ocean voyages, and state-building. A story of ancient clans, told through an ensemble cast. The remnants of the Shang people migrate across the ocean to survive, building ancient ships, developing infrastructure, cultivating the land, advancing civilization, and rebuilding their state. In the depths of a savage wilderness, they abolish human sacrifice and bear witness to the brilliance of human nature.

Inspired by archaeological discoveries and excavated remains, this novel uses engineering research and historical deduction to imagine the Shang people crossing the ocean to the Americas and establishing a nation overseas. This is not real history.

Originally titled The Sea Traders: The Black Bird's Voyage Across the Ocean, this original epic is written in the form of a seafaring journal.