[Reborn in 1978 + Contributing Discoveries to the Nation + Major National Infrastructure Projects + No System]
“Eight hundred yuan. I can’t fix it for a cent less.”
On the eve of spring plowing, the only tractor at Red Star Farm breaks down. It has to be running by dawn, but the parts dealer insists the engine is beyond repair and must be replaced.
Lu Yuan has just returned to being eighteen. In his previous life, he spent half his life working at a factory. He and an old master mechanic take the tractor apart, only to discover that the supposedly new parts still bear the farm’s own old markings beneath the paint.
You cheated the farm with scrap parts once, and now you want another eight hundred yuan?
Lu Yuan wants to use his skills to earn a decent wage and spare his mother some hardship. But at the old factory where he finds work, there are more than three hundred employees, and management plans to keep only forty.
He and his coworkers use old machine tools to build new machines, take on orders, make up the unpaid wages, and hand their improvements over to the nation.
Once the funds for trial production arrive, the factory has a lifeline, and Lu Yuan has an even bigger plan.
He’ll lead this group in making the outrageously expensive imported equipment used in national projects themselves.
