In his previous life, Lin Yuanzhou was the country's youngest industrial tycoon, building a trillion-yuan empire spanning heavy industry, energy, and manufacturing.
But fate cut short his brilliant life. At sixty-two, he died from overwork. His greatest regret in his final moments was that he had failed to help Northeast China's old industrial base weather the upheaval of the 1990s.
When he wakes, he is back in 1993.
Fresh out of college, with just eight hundred yuan in his pocket, he stands before a state-owned machinery plant on the verge of bankruptcy.
Even more absurdly, he now has an outrageously simple System: every worker he recruits earns him a hundred yuan in cash each day.
One worker earns a hundred a day, ten earn a thousand, and ten thousand earn a million.
While everyone else abandons the Northeast and flees the wave of layoffs, Lin Yuanzhou goes against the tide, frantically taking over factories and recruiting workers.
Starting with a small machinery plant on the brink of closure, he uses the business acumen and foresight he gained over sixty years in his previous life to reshape the entire Chinese industrial landscape.
They say the Northeast is finished. Lin Yuanzhou says, "I'll be the one to hold up the Northeast's backbone."
Just how far can an industrial king, who has lived two lifetimes, take this black-soil land?
