The Research System: Please Serve the People

A note before reading: This is not a traditional period novel, not a story about going into business, and not a harem novel. It focuses more on rural revitalization, strengthening the nation through science and technology, and an academic genius in technology.

Economist Lu Yuan dies of illness in 2025 and is reborn as an educated youth in northern Shaanxi in 1975. Facing corruption in the production team’s work-point system, shady dealings in the granary, and a fierce contest over university recommendation slots, he activates the “Science and Technology Revival System.” By exchanging positive emotions for technological blueprints, he wields knowledge like a blade to tear through the gloom of the age. Beneath the kerosene lamp, he uses double-entry bookkeeping to overhaul the work-point ledger, with danger lurking in every click of the abacus. At the members’ assembly, he exposes the granary’s phantom accounts and corners production team leader Chen Dashu.

When the System’s reward roulette lights up, a blueprint for the Shuguang electronic-tube computer suddenly appears in his hands. Lu Yuan knows this is only the beginning.

From cave dwellings in northern Shaanxi to national research institutes, from a homemade hand-cranked generator to satellite orbit equations, he clears fraudulent work-point accounts with an abacus in his left hand and writes audacious technological visions with a pen in his right.

In this life, he will unite the mind of an economist with the backbone of a scientist to help an entire era shine.