The North: Rebirth 1970

In 2026, industrial entrepreneur Zhou Weidong passed away with a lifetime of wealth and regrets. When he opened his eyes again, he returned to the small northern town in 1970 and became the fifteen-year-old boy whose family was in ruins and who had not yet lost his father and sister. There were only ninety-seven days left before his father died in a factory accident. There is no stock code that can be liquidated at will, no inexhaustible system space, and no era that will make way for the reborn. What Zhou Weidong can rely on is only the incomplete memory of his previous life, the mechanical knowledge he has relearned, and the small accounts that must be explained clearly. Starting from repairing a flashlight and finding out a crack in the connecting rod, he walked into the scrapyard, transportation team and border port; starting from the exchange of a few daily necessities, he gradually became a "bad guy" between China and the Soviet Union. While more and more people are chasing televisions, leather clothes and quick money, he sets his sights on undervalued machine tools, bearings, drawings, materials and engineers. A storm is approaching in the Soviet Union, and a huge empire is disintegrating. What is before Zhou Weidong is not only an opportunity to make a fortune, but also a more difficult choice: to take advantage of the chaos to harvest, or to send the industrial fire that can be taken away legally back to the motherland, so that the purchased equipment can actually operate, and the learned technology can eventually become China's own capabilities? This is a novel about the era of rebirth that spans more than half a century. It is also a long journey from saving a father and protecting a family to building an industrial chain and supporting a generation of industrial people.