Sail of the Azure Waves

Chen Yan makes a living crunching numbers in the financial world. One night, a fishing trip goes awry, and he wakes up in a thatched hut in a fishing village six hundred years in the past. All he has left on his wrist is a survival bracelet, while his mind holds the complete history of the Ming dynasty.

One look around is enough for him to know this place is doomed. Zheng He's fleets may be mighty, but after seven voyages, the treasury is drained. The sea charts are sealed away, the great ships rot in their docks, and for the next five hundred years, not a single Ming ship will sail the seas again.

As the people aboard the ship kneel and wait for the wind, only one thought crosses his mind: No. I refuse to accept this.

He starts with a single needle for the ship's firemaster, avoids hidden shoals, saves the firearms, and trades pepper to recoup his investment. Later, he opens a bank in Nanjing and takes insurance and futures trading overseas. While the court throws silver away to save face, he makes it flow back home.

A man from the modern age brings finance to the Ming dynasty and rewrites the Age of Exploration before it even begins.