The Layoff Wave Is Here? I Strike Back by Rallying a Million Migrant Workers

1997. The depths of winter.

Two hundred thousand people in Tiexi District have been laid off. A loan shark can drive someone to sell their blood over a loan of just three hundred yuan.

Model workers shiver in the snow, holding cardboard signs that read, “I’ll work for a meal.” A factory director is driven to make his whole family drink pesticide.

The edifice of an era is collapsing, and the backs of countless workers are buckling under the weight.

Huo Xiao, once a top business magnate in his previous life, opens his eyes to find himself the most ruthless local kingpin in Fengtian City, known as “Knife, Gun, Cannon.”

Faced with misery everywhere, Huo Xiao crushes the loan sharks’ knees and tears off the thug label he wears.

“If the state-owned enterprises don’t want you, I do!”

“Those iron rice bowls you lost? I’ll forge them into gold!”

With business instincts far ahead of his time and a ruthless willingness to fight violence with violence, Huo Xiao recruits a million top-notch technical workers.

Starting with reselling supplies and consolidating bankrupt small factories, he rises against all odds.

He tears apart predatory capital, crushes criminal gangs, develops cutting-edge technology, and acquires multinational giants!

Years later, when Western capital tries to short the country’s industry, it discovers to its horror that the former street thug from the Northeast has built a trillion-yuan heavy-industry empire that makes the whole world tremble, with a million industrial workers at his side!

Huo Xiao: “This black soil will always be the Republic’s strongest backbone!”