Looking back on Hong Xiuquan's entrepreneurial history, it looks like a large-scale social experiment that is both absurd and serious:
A failed scholar, because of a fever dream, decided to tear up all the textbooks, and then relied on his self-proclaimed second-generation god status and a set of modern suture theories to almost overthrow the largest feudal empire in East Asia at the time.
This is a plot that even the most daring Internet article writers would not dare to write like this.
But history just happened.
It tells us: Never underestimate the power of a serially frustrated reader, the hallucination brought about by a high fever, and a completely trashed, absurd yet striking "new PPT" that can produce a black humor-like power that can overwhelm the times.
(The camera zooms out, and Hong Xiuquan's back is gradually blurred in the firelight of the burning classics. The subtitles slowly read: "Starting a business is risky, and you need to be cautious when you join the church. Dreams are full, but reality... May be a bit skinny.")
