"As long as the Qing Dynasty's compensation is still being paid, my factory will never stop working."
In 1894, the Sino-Japanese War was defeated, and the empire was at dusk.
He was the only new scholar in the Qing Dynasty who dared to throw away his official title in the Jinluan Palace in the past four hundred years - Zhang Jian.
Facing the broken mountains and rivers, he did not choose to cry like a literati, but turned around and returned to his hometown, starting a top trader that spanned thirty years.
Others laughed at him as crazy: Why don't you leave a high-ranking official in the capital to do a low-ranking business?
He laughed at the foolishness of the world: What you are fighting for is a temporary job, but what I want to create is an eternal job!