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Based on Adam Smith's classic works, this book travels through time and space to dismantle the modern economic code. The book ranges from textile machines in the steam age to blockchain in Silicon Valley, from the colonial trade of the East India Company to the crisis of WTO rules, using vivid cases to interpret the eternal wisdom of "The Wealth of Nations". Through seven chapters of in-depth analysis, it reveals how the division of labor catalyzed the industrial revolution, why the market mechanism is called the "invisible hand", and how free trade reshapes the landscape of globalization. The book not only restores the spiritual resonance between 18th-century British factory owners and contemporary Silicon Valley venture capitalists, but also directly confronts new economic propositions such as digital currency, chip wars, and ESG investment, demonstrating the amazing explanatory power of classical theory in the intelligent age. What is particularly unique is that the author integrates the ethical dimension of Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments" into the analysis to explore how the thousand-year dialectic of self-interest and altruism affects modern business civilization. This is not only a general reading on economics, but also a key that opens the door to the nature of wealth, guiding readers to understand the economic laws driven by human nature and the inner logic of civilization evolution in the hustle and bustle of the metaverse and carbon tariffs.