Starting from driving a dilapidated oil tanker to the end of the world, Li Zhiqiang got a glimpse of the shady story of "vote scalping" that was a hundred times more profitable than stealing oil. With his ruthlessness and calculation, he fought bloody battles in the rough oil fields of the 1990s. Driving a BMW, hiring a driver, and supporting your loved ones seems to be a wonderful experience.
Yet every fortune is tinged with grey. He circled between cunning guides and greedy capital, dancing on the knife edge of power and money transactions, and established his own energy territory. When he finally became an "entrepreneur" in the spotlight, a detailed report letter exposed every drop of his crude oil and sinful past on the way to his fortune.
It took him ten years to go from an oil-stealing gangster to a business tycoon; he fell from the top to behind bars in just one night. The empire he built with ambition was founded on quicksand and sin.
This is a history of a hero's savage growth and his family, and it is also the ultimate tragedy of desire's backlash.
