In 2003, a nationwide wave of entrepreneurship swept across the country.
Zhang Jianguo had run a building-materials shop for twelve years and had six million yuan to his name. Unwilling to settle for an ordinary life or spend his days feeling trapped, he resolutely sold everything he owned and threw himself into the iron-powder industry.
He ignored advice and refused to play it safe, staking his entire fortune and borrowing heavily. He swore he would build his own factory, become a factory boss, and make something of himself!
But he stepped into the industry on the eve of its collapse.
When his rival built a high-end secondary powder plant next door, a brutal, close-quarters business war suddenly erupted.
Customers were poached, raw materials cut off, workers lured away, orders plummeted, and cash flow dried up...
The industrial dream that had once set his heart ablaze became, in the blink of an eye, a life-or-death crisis that threatened to ruin him.
From a successful small-time boss to a destitute man burdened with four million yuan in debt.
His family fell apart, friends and relatives turned against him, his partner betrayed him, his factory was sealed, and his property was sold...
At last, Zhang Jianguo understood:
The burdens the times drop on you never come with a warning.
Ambition in the face of the tide was ultimately nothing more than a dusty, empty dream.
This is the true story of an ordinary man who fought like mad amid the tides of his time, suffered a devastating fall, and was finally reborn.
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