When a top financial director + senior engineer traveled through ancient times, he looked at the entire dynasty as if he were looking at a balance sheet full of bugs.
Imperial power? Ethereal brand premium.
Title? Fixed assets that are constantly depreciating.
His only obsession is cost control, project management and KPI assessment engraved in his DNA.
Therefore, when he was sent to a barren fiefdom with nothing but nothing, he was excited: the best entrepreneurial project in history was launched!
Building roads, opening mines, and setting up factories, he used data and drawings to reshape mountains and rivers;
He used rationality and strength to define rules for disaster relief, military training, and trade.
He did not call himself emperor because the throne would limit the scope of his projects.
He does not strive for hegemony because war will lower his input-output ratio.
But when the world was in chaos and all the people knelt down and chanted the name of the "Sage of Works", everyone was horrified to discover that this man who held the world's economic lifeline was already the uncrowned king.
