Reborn in 1980: I Have a Hundred Academicians at My Command

1980, deep in the Qinling Mountains. Lu Yuan tore up his transfer order to return to the city, then walked into a cowshed reeking of sour rot.

“This time around, I won't become an academician. I'll become the founding master of academicians.”

In everyone's eyes, Lu Yuan had gone mad. He took a mute lunatic, a blacksmith's son, and a little shepherd girl and drew circles in the mud that no one could make sense of.

But when the first batch of high-purity industrial alkali was produced, when a hand-built lithography machine fired up in the barren mountains, and when that mute solved a world-class problem in topology...

The West was horrified to discover that the young man in the rocking chair in the Qinling Mountains had used a cowshed to seize the global technology industry's jugular.

Science allows no impurities, and my lab has no place for mediocrity.