When the soul of an ordinary man from a future age transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty, he uses his knowledge of the future to fight for the right to eat meat and steadily pursue his ambitions. But once he enters the halls of power, he is no longer master of his own fate... To protect the people he loves most and safeguard his family, he has no choice but to keep striving.
Only when he looks back does he realize that, without even noticing, he has become the backbone of the Ming Dynasty! This is an age of a nation striving forward, an age when money is wielded as a weapon. In the first year of the Jiajing reign... it all begins in a small mountain village in Shu!