Yan Maoda

Yan Maoda is Yan Maoda emerges as a strategic and visionary leader within the Guangzhou Station, a clandestine organization operating in the late Ming era, likely serving as a front for transgressive commercial and political activities. Initially appointed to oversee Purple Treasure Studio—a luxury goods shop that masks deeper operations—he quickly grows disillusioned with routine management, seeking new challenges beyond traditional business roles. His expertise in jewelry and commerce allows him to pivot toward more ambitious projects, such as expanding the station’s network into a structured "armed freight company" (as hinted by Sun Kecheng’s proposal), leveraging the crumbling late-Ming social order for profit and influence. A former jewelry company executive,

Context from Novel

"Chapter 118: Commercial Planning The plan for East Gate Market began at the outer moat of Bairren Fortress's east gate, extending three hundred meters westward to form a main thoroughfare christened "East Gate Street." Cross-streets would intersect it every hundred meters on each side, creating a grid of "one vertical, two horizontal." Plots of varying sizes along these streets could be sold to merchants for self-built shops, while the transmigrators themselves would construct additional storefr"

"Chapter 121: Guangzhou Trip (Part 1) Xiao Zishan had returned from Guangzhou. The expedition had not been about selling goods or earning silver—quite the opposite. They had functioned as a proper "Purchasing Delegation to Sheep City," carrying an extensive procurement list compiled from every department's urgent requirements. Chief among these was pig iron. Hainan possessed some of China's finest and largest high-grade iron ore deposits, but whether at Tiandu or Shilu, the transmigrators current"

"Chapter 124: Guangzhou Trip (Part 4) The future that Xiao Zishan sketched for the Qiwei Escort Bureau amounted to restructuring it into an armed freight company. Late-Ming social order was already crumbling, and long-distance transport without armed escorts had become impossible. Sun Kecheng sat dumbfounded. Such grand claims—businesses extending everywhere, with bureau routes following in their wake! He didn't have nearly enough martial brothers and disciples for an undertaking of that scope. E"

"Chapter 125: The Slave Market (Part 1) Of all those present, only Xiao Zishan had any experience in time-travel commerce. The others stood speechless as they witnessed the so-called "Crystal Dawn Jade mirror"—obviously nothing more than a cheap plastic-framed egg mirror from Wenzhou, the sort sold by the heap at wholesale markets for perhaps ten yuan at most—fetch a price of 150 liang . Guo Yi and his companions shook their heads in disbelief, struggling to process what they had just seen. "Well"

"Chapter 126: The Slave Market (Part 2) This was no free market. The moment these well-dressed visitors passed through the entrance, slave dealers descended upon them like flies to honey, hawking their merchandise with practiced urgency. "Look at this one—perfectly aligned glutinous teeth that could bite through gold and jade—fifteen liang , what do you say?" one cried. Another shoved forward, grabbing a girl by her hair: "See this one's hair—jet-black..." A third dealer interrupted, gesturing to"

Appearances

Appears in chapters: 118, 121, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 194, 196, 288, 527, 528, 529, 532, 535, 610, 611, 620, 621, 706, 746, 754, 813, 814, 815, 816, 817, 820, 830, 1206, 1278, 1279.

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