A Down-and-Out Factory Director? From the Start, I Install Teaching Terminals Across the County

[High IQ + golden finger + technical expertise + public face-slapping + revenge + no brainless decisions] Debt collectors showed up, the funding pipeline was cut off, and rumors of bankruptcy liquidation all converged on the same day. His father said, “They’re not here to collect a debt. They’re here to force Hongxing to shut down.” Before he could finish, he collapsed from a stroke. Hongxing Electronics, once home to more than a thousand employees, was nearly thirty million yuan in debt. That same night, thousands of miles away, an international team had spent three weeks stuck on a fault that would cost tens of millions to refabricate. Zhou Yan, the youngest chief engineering lead at Qiheng Research Institute, touched the test board and pinpointed the problem in thirty seconds. At two in the morning, his mother called. He quit his ten-million-yuan-a-year job and returned home to take over the factory. He spent the night investigating: a major order had been intercepted, key components had been cut off, and someone had strangled the funding pipeline. It had all happened at the same time. This wasn't a business failure. Someone had set them up. The balance in the factory's corporate account: 872 yuan. At the evaluation meeting, an expert hired by their competitor announced in front of everyone, “Those two machines in your factory that can still power on are just heaps of scrap metal. Those orders from the thirty-seven schools aren't going to you.” Amid the laughter, Zhou Yan walked up to the machine declared to have a “damaged motherboard” and touched it. “It's not the motherboard. A capacitor on the third power supply has degraded. Give me eleven minutes, and I'll get it running.” Eleven minutes later, the machine powered on. The room fell completely silent. As it turned out, Zhou Yan had bonded with an Engineering Diagnostic Console. The moment he touched real equipment, he could spot fatal faults that no one else could find. Starting with the first order from the thirty-seven schools, Zhou Yan delivers public face-slapping and wins the contracts, turning a dying factory of a thousand workers into a domestic engineering benchmark no one can push around. Then he tracks down, one by one, the people who had set Hongxing up all those years ago.