Reborn in 1985: Every County Resident Gives Me a Dime a Day

Reborn in rundown Huaihai County, Ma Yunfei binds himself to the "County Revitalization System"

Every permanent resident in the county gives him ten cents a day!

With 600,000 people, that's 60,000 yuan a day and 1.8 million yuan a month!

But the System has one condition: the more people there are, the more money he earns. If they all leave, he gets nothing.

Officials from the nine neighboring counties come running to learn from him: "Boss Ma, what's your secret to attracting investment?"

Ma Yunfei sighs. "The secret is... you recruit talented people. I recruit people."

To keep 600,000 people from heading south for work

He builds a garment factory and doubles the wages!

He provides three meals a day, with meat at every meal!

He builds a six-lane road that leads straight to the expressway!

He lands foreign trade orders until he can barely keep up!

Two years later, the owner of a huge textile mill next door shows up carrying a sewing machine. "Boss Ma, will you hire me?"

Ma Yunfei looks at the System panel showing a permanent population of one million and silently does the math. "The population is still growing... Why did today's income go up by another 20,000 yuan?"