Reborn in the ’90s: Drawing Foreign Exchange by Hand from the Start

In 1990, top reproduction artist Lu Zheng is reborn in a Beijing hutong.

With a bare-walled home and a hungry younger sister to care for, he picks up a paintbrush and hand-draws foreign-exchange certificates so realistic they pass for the real thing, earning his first fortune.

Next, he takes over a state-owned printworks on the brink of bankruptcy. His rivals laugh, assuming he'll lose everything and jump off a building.

Lu Zheng just smiles. Art books, luxury packaging, even the “privatization securities” the Soviet Union is about to issue: give me the blueprints, and there's nothing I can't print!

He boards the international express and uses exquisite “printed goods” to rake in a fortune just before the Big Brother's collapse.

Ten years later, when overseas giants try to choke Huaxia by restricting its access to chips,

Lu Zheng silently pulls back the dust cover in his workshop, revealing a domestically made lithography machine of extraordinary precision.

“Isn't the most advanced exposure process in lithography just another kind of printing?”

That day, Wall Street's financial barons are thoroughly shaken, and a trillion-yuan technology conglomerate spanning heavy industry and semiconductors is born!