Gu Pingyuan, a scholar who was brutally framed and exiled, carried the identity of a fugitive and made a living by dying. He relied on his own wisdom to take advantage of the situation. He entered the business as a businessman, established himself with a ticket number, made a fortune with tea, established a business with salt, provided food to the people, and competed with various business gangs.The confrontation involves Shanxi merchants, Hui merchants, Beijing merchants, salt merchants, Caobang, and foreign merchants. He uses his gameplay to build a new business empire. In the end, he joins forces with several major Chinese business gangs to fight against foreign merchants and save the country's economic lifeline. It presents an ukiyo-e of a generation of business gangs serving the country through business.