Three days after his father died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the factory director's office, Ma Defu, who had made his fortune stealing copper from the factory, carried a funeral wreath into the mourning hall and slapped a property transfer agreement on the altar. It offered five hundred thousand yuan to buy out the factory.
In his previous life, twenty-two-year-old Gu Cheng signed it.
The factory and its 210 mu of land went to Ma Defu, while fifteen million yuan in guaranteed debt landed squarely on Gu Cheng's shoulders. He spent fourteen years as a shadow machinist in an underground workshop in the south, working himself to death at a machine tool.
Back in the mourning hall in 2012, Gu Cheng clenched the old factory's copper seal and activated the Great Nation's Heavy Industry System!
Touch a machine tool and sense its hidden damage. His fourteen years of top-tier skill from his previous life synchronized with his body on the spot, and the System could upgrade along with the factory, step by step!
Gu Cheng shoved back the predatory contract and publicly stripped Ma Defu bare!
German experts had declared that no Chinese factory could machine a 1.6-meter shield-tunneling steel ring, and demanded eight million yuan. Gu Cheng took the job!
The factory lost power? Gu Cheng put his life on the line, forcing Ma Defu to pay the 63,000-yuan electricity bill out of his own pocket and become the Second Machinery Factory's unpaid dutiful son!
For an old 1988 vertical lathe valued at just 42,000 yuan, he and the veteran machinists spent the whole night scraping its bed by hand, working so precisely that it outperformed a brand-new machine fresh from the factory!
Years later, when foreign powers joined forces to blockade China's advanced manufacturing industry, the world discovered to its horror that tunnel-boring machines, industrial robots, heavy-lift drones, and even the foundational mother machines for the most advanced lithography tools were all in the hands of a dilapidated factory in an unremarkable county town in the Central Plains!
