Raging Seas, 1981: I Haul Up a Net of Gold from the Start

Reborn in 1981 in a small fishing village, Pei Zheng looks at the pot of watery wild-vegetable porridge and his wife and daughter, gaunt with hunger, then silently picks up a battered pair of seafood-gathering tongs.

In those days, the coast was free of industrial pollution and destructive fishing nets, and the seabed was full of treasures beyond the reach of ordinary people!

Pei Zheng understands ocean currents and weather, and knows the migratory routes of every kind of fish. He starts making daily "hauls" from the sea.

Flip over an ordinary reef, and there's a wild blue crab the size of a washbasin underneath. Dive into the shallows, and he brings up the remains of a shipwreck loaded with Ming and Qing porcelain.

While fishermen in the same village are still congratulating themselves over catching a few pounds of little fish in a day, Pei Zheng has already built a thousand-ton steel ship and cast his nets across all four oceans.

Watch as a disreputable village layabout rides the winds and waves, builds the world's largest deep-sea fishing empire with his own hands, and spoils his wife until she becomes the wife of a billionaire!