Return to 1959: Starting from the College Entrance Examination

July 1959, No. 1 Middle School, Linjiang County, Nanhuai Province, Examination Room No. 18. When Shen Zheng wrote the first word "solution" on his math paper, forty-one years of memory suddenly came back to him. He remembered that he and Gu Huaichuan met in the examination room and hit it off like old friends; he remembered that the two worked their way from the commune purchasing station to Zhongguancun and turned a small workshop into the "Hengchuan Group" with annual revenue of several billions. I also remember that on the eve of the company's listing in 2000, Gu Huaichuan smiled and offered a glass of wine and said, "Brother Zheng, a company can only have one owner." That glass of wine killed him. When he opened his eyes again, he was still the poor candidate with only half a piece of dry food in his pocket and patched sleeves. But he knows the policy changes, trends of the times, business opportunities and traps in the next forty years, and he also knows what kind of fangs the people smiling at him outside the examination room will show in the future. In this life, he will no longer be anyone's stepping stone. From supply and marketing cooperatives to real estate, from treasury bills to the Internet, he worked step by step, made decisions in advance, and built a business empire that truly belonged to him in the tide of the times. Gu Huaichuan, on the other hand, walked step by step towards the ending he had written himself.