[Tycoon] + [Infrastructure] + [Career] + [Slow burn] + [Play the pig to eat the tiger] + [Livestream industry chain] + [A small county’s rise]
Reborn in 2016, Cheng Mo returned to Fanjiang County.
He took over his father’s shabby clothing factory, which was a month behind on wages and on the verge of going bankrupt.
The rules of the System in his head were completely absurd:
He got a daily rebate based on the number of employees. The more people he hired, the more money he got back!
One percent of GDP: 220 million in startup funds had already arrived. The daily rebate doubled at 100 employees, then multiplied several more times at 1,000...
The System set no upper limit.
Even more absurdly, every time Fanjiang County’s GDP went up by one point, his rebate increased by one point too.
Other people burned money to hire workers for their factories. Cheng Mo hired workers to pick up money.
Starting by turning one clothing factory around,
he built livestreaming bases, developed cultural tourism and wellness services, opened an AI short-drama industrial park, built an AI computing center, created a smart new city, and constructed high-speed rail and expressways...
He had only one goal:
To fill this hollow little county of 600,000 people, which didn’t even have high-speed rail,
with ten million employees, one step at a time.
Facing a tidal wave of skepticism across the internet, Cheng Mo merely smiled faintly.
“I’m not trying to become the richest man in the county.
I want to turn it into the next Dubai of the mainland.”
Years later, a reporter interviewed him at the top of a building in Fanjiang County’s CBD.
Looking down at the bustling metropolis below, its population now in the tens of millions, Cheng Mo said softly:
“My original intention was actually simple.
I just wanted the 600,000 people back home
not to have to leave their roots behind and struggle to make a living in someone else’s city.”
