Ling Le, a top salesman in the modern era, transmigrates after a car accident and becomes a spendthrift in 1896 Beijing, buried under a mountain of debt.
Creditors at the door? He turns a fake pocket watch into a chance to make a fortune without putting up a penny.
He gathers intelligence in the Eight Great Hutongs, bluffs the emperor and empress in the Forbidden City, and when foreign trading firms cut off his supplies, he opens his own factory instead.
To the Qing aristocracy, he's a "business prodigy." To Gu Nanqiao, he's "a shameless con man, but one with a bit of talent."
The country is falling apart. He makes money with one arm and embraces beauties with the other, claiming, "I'm just a businessman," while laying the foundations of industry, arms manufacturing, and finance one by one.
Some call him frivolous, some call him crazy, and some say he'll get his head chopped off sooner or later.
He doesn't know how to explain it.
He can't exactly say, "I came from a hundred years in the future, and I know how to save this country."
This book starts off so right! Lingle passed away as a prodigal son in the capital. When his creditor blocked the door, he took out a fake pocket watch and passed it off as a gift to the British minister. He cheated him out of four thousand taels on the spot - it was so exciting that he couldn't hold it in his face. But what really happened was that he was playing chess and talking tricks with Gu Nanqiao in Zuixian Tower during the day, and people from the Ministry of Works came to visit at night. The water in the capital was muddier than the ledger. I read the phrase "don't wait until late" on the note Gu Nanqiao handed over three times, and it was very exciting. Su Na's appearance was quite wild. She dragged Lingle into the study of a foreign company to steal the list - the rhythm was so fast that her palms became sweaty. The title of the book "I started laying the foundation in 1896" really doesn't lie. Lingle's playful smile is on the tip of the knife every step of the way. Ready to chase! Brother, the follow-up review is here. Within 150 words, the tone should be light and the landing should be steady. Take a look: When I started writing this book, I thought that if the first chapter doesn't make readers sit back and lean back, there will be no way to play the rest of the book. Fortunately, I had fun writing the part about the fake pocket watch. You're right, underneath the playful smile are all the ledgers - people like Lingle, the more they smile, the more they calculate. I had to change the sentence "don't wait when the time comes" when Gu Nanqiao handed the note four times. Su Na's appearance was smooth, she bumped into it herself. You continue reading, and I continue writing. There are still a few unopened letters waiting to be read. Thanks for reading, the book is not written in vain.
I read it for the historical novels of the late Qing Dynasty, but it looked like a novel that traveled back in time to the late Qing Dynasty. It thought through the way of laying the foundation and led the people at that time to lay a foundation for the future, just waiting for the Wuchang Uprising and the spark later. The idea is very novel. I agree with this thinking. It uses a modern perspective to think about a series of events of that year. It is very good. The novel is very attractive from the beginning. I plan to follow it for a long time. Good luck to the author.
It's very beautiful, the rhythm is good, and I don't feel tired watching it.
This book is very good. The author is trying to use the God's perspective of future people to try to change the complicated situation in the late Qing Dynasty. Starting from first principles, only changing the essence, the success is passed on to future generations.