Travel to the Tang Dynasty to Open a Store

2025 AD, Beijing International Trade Center Phase 3, 37th floor. Senior investment manager Lu Yuan suffered a heart attack and collapsed at his desk after working overtime for 72 consecutive hours. When he woke up, he was lying in the wilderness on the outskirts of Chang'an in the 15th year of Kaiyuan. He was wearing coarse linen clothes and straw sandals on his feet. The sky was full of stars - he had never seen such a starry sky during his three years in Beijing. Lu Yuan, 31 years old, holds an MBA from Tsinghua University in Economics and Management. He has a background in Alibaba supply chain operations and has been in the investment and financing circles for five years. At this moment, his 22-year-old body contains a soul that has been burned through excessive overtime. His memory and professional abilities are intact, but he is in the prosperous Tang Dynasty in 727 AD, and all modern infrastructure has been reduced to zero. He has no system, no space, and no photographic memory. He only has an investment manager's obsession with efficiency, a supply chain operator's sensitivity to processes, and a "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" that he has read three times - he knows that the Anshi Rebellion will not come for another 28 years, and these 28 years are his only window period. Starting from a bowl of improved soup cakes in Xishikou, to chain restaurant networks, to logistics caravans across the Silk Road, to the private version of "flying money" that leveraged the Tang Dynasty's financial system - Lu Yuan used modern business thinking to build a business empire that should not exist in the world's most powerful ancient empire. But business is never just about buying and selling. When the military system of the government disintegrated, the land equalization system collapsed, and Li Linfu's shadow climbed into the court, when the iron hoof of the Anshi Rebellion finally crushed the gates of Chang'an - he had to fight for his own empire, and for the era he had lived in for half his life.