[Business Wars in the 1970s] [Foresight] [Face-slapping爽文] [Building from Nothing]
In the spring of 1978, during the Lunar New Year travel rush, educated youth Jiang Huai returns to the city only to face the desperate prospect of being sent back for lack of work. Then, by chance, he finds a yellowed copy of the Ledger of the People's Livelihood on a train!
Which family urgently needs a Shanghai-brand watch for a dowry? Which machinery plant needs fifty jin of scrap copper to tide it over? Which kind of fabric will become hard currency three months from now? Open the ledger, and the hidden needs of the small-town residents and the trends of the times are laid bare! Every win-win deal he brokers earns him Merit Points, unlocking access to even rarer resources and deeper policy insights!
Faced with deliberate obstruction from the neighborhood office director, a united blockade by parasites at state-owned factories, and relatives who kick him when he is down, Jiang Huai holds fast to his ironclad principles: never cross the line, and let the people benefit. Amid the cracks in the planned economy, he weaves an immense web of supply and demand!
From trading a watch for a secure job, to taking over a failing township enterprise, to heading south and building a business empire in the special economic zones. As the tide of the times rolls in, watch how an ordinary man with no connections seizes every historic opportunity and becomes a first-generation private-sector magnate controlling tens of billions in assets.
