At the end of the late Qing Dynasty, Quanzhou Port.
Su Mingyuan, a failed scholar, returned to his hometown and was forced to leave by his creditors. When he was at the end of his rope, a mechanical voice sounded in his mind——
[The great navigation trade system has been activated.
[Novice mission: Earn the first pot of gold in Quanzhou Port. Reward: Clipper ship blueprint.
No money? Su Mingyuan tricked the girl from the rouge shop into crediting a boatload of glass beads, then turned around and bargained for 30% off the silk from the Nanyang merchant at the dock.
Silk becomes moldy due to moisture? He found a master in the dyeing workshop to use plant ash to dye "moiré pattern dark flowers", but sold it at a high price.
Creditors collude with pirates to block port? He asked an old drunkard shipwright to build a clipper ship and use artillery to blow the pirates into the sky.
From then on, a common man full of market spirit set out from Quanzhou Port, using glass beads as chips and steam engines as sharp blades, to set off an industrial storm belonging to the Great Abyss in the Age of Discovery.
When Victoria's fleet sailed towards the Thames, what they saw was a dragon flag flying across the entire ocean.
This is the story of a common man who uses glass beads to move the world.
