In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the cold winter of the Little Ice Age enveloped the north. Three years of severe drought, locust plagues raged, and the government pressed for food like a tiger. The people in Lijiagou stripped the bark off the trees, ate all the Guanyin soil, and watched their children starve to death one by one.
Gold medal salesman Li Meng woke up and became the patriarch of this run-down village.
The good news is: he has a complete set of modern management and military knowledge, and is good at drawing pie, brainwashing, and managing teams with KPIs.
The bad news is: his entire team consists of more than a hundred poor relatives who are so hungry that their eyes glow green.
The worse news is: the county government's grain collector gave him a three-day deadline, and if he couldn't pay the grain, he would have someone pay off the debt.
Kneeling means starving to death, standing means beheading - Li Meng chose the third path: leading his relatives to rebel against his mother!
The second uncle is a veteran and can teach people to form formations; the cousin is a blacksmith and can make knives and cannons; the cousin is a salesman and is an informer throughout the county; the cousin has been an apprentice with a wandering doctor and can save lives and treat injuries.
Li Meng drew a big pie for them: farming KPIs, siege OKRs, and equity incentives to allocate fields. Others relied on desperate efforts to rebel, while Li Jiajun relied on management to rebel.
But what Li Meng didn't know was that the food hoarded in this county affected the chess game in the entire north. And his rebellion, which only wanted to lead his relatives to make a living, accidentally became a key link in changing the general trend of the world.
This is the story of a man dragging an oil bottle with a large family and fighting their way through a ravine.
It's not a heroic epic, but a group of farmers who are about to starve to death, how to live a human life in this cannibalistic world.
