Siheyuan: From Apprentice to Industrial Titan

After waking up, military engineer Zheng Dongsheng finds himself a young apprentice in a Beijing courtyard in 1976.

In his previous life, the engine he poured his heart into designing stalled at the final stage of production, leaving him with a lifelong regret. This time, he's bound to the Great Nation Industrial System: the Eye of Technology reveals every manufacturing flaw; the Hall of Knowledge lets him call upon his past life's expertise with ease; and the Mission of the Era rewards him more the harder he works.

The veteran workers at the steel mill look down on him: not even a whisker on his chin, and he thinks he can improve the technology? He promptly pulls out plans for a thermal compensation ring, doubling the machine tool's precision and leaving the entire factory stunned. People in the courtyard laugh at him: an apprentice wants to be an engineer? He goes on to pass the college entrance exams, join a ministry, and get sent to reform a loss-making factory. He builds precision lathes, programmable lathes, CNC lathes, and machining centers. Along the way, he even sets the thieving, troublemaking Banggeng straight and turns him into a top student at Harbin Institute of Technology.

From an apprentice in 1976 to a giant who builds up the nation's machine tool industry, he spends his life doing just one thing: building, one machine at a time, everything he failed to make in his previous life, for this new era to see.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.