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Late Ming, silver crisis, little ice age — and the empire's last competent men are clerks like him, three rungs below the governor.

The world's silver stops flowing, the little ice age bites, rebel hordes pour south, and the Later Jin rides where it pleases — 1633 China as one collapsing chain-reaction. A nobody yamen runner in Tongcheng county decides to do something about it, starting with the paperwork in front of him. Widely praised as the most economically literate Ming-collapse novel: grain, silver and logistics matter more than duels.