After transmigrating and experiencing death, Zhang Yi knows he's a transmigrator. To avoid unnecessary trouble, in this life he plans to quietly run his firecracker factory, staying behind the scenes and supplying the country with technology.
But the gunpowder he develops has the strategic department of Huaguo on edge and terrified. From the start, he catches the eye of the country's top brass, who waste no time offering tens of millions to buy out the formula!
With a fortune in hand, Zhang Yi thinks he can finally make his mark. He takes over a steel mill, and after he improves ordinary steel, it becomes the specialized steel Huaguo desperately needs. A representative from Huaguo comes calling again, only to discover that the air-cooling system for the slag is actually a prototype for a turbofan engine. Both technology patents are swiftly bought up once more.
Now financially independent, Zhang Yi says, "All right. If the country prospers in this life, then I can retire with a clear conscience. From now on, I'll go fishing and lie flat in comfort!"
But after using his handmade fishing rod for only a few days, he's surrounded by a heavily armed special forces team on the riverbank!
The reason?
The specialized carbon fiber and winding technique used in his fishing rod have shown the Air Force the promise of next-generation ultralight, high-strength composite materials...
"Comrade Zhang Yi, stop tinkering!"
National security personnel look at the genius before them, whose civilian tech ideas have taken a strange turn, with eager eyes.
"How about joining the ranks?"
As a nationwide "industrial survey" gets underway, Zhang Yi's seemingly ordinary civilian companies and technical reserves make the blueprints for the once-unattainable "Thousand Hands Plan" gradually shift, in the eyes of the experts, from "impossible" to four emphatic words: "This can work!"
The number of typos is still the same.
It's disgusting when the protagonist is written too smoothly.
The pacing of the steel mill chapters is a bit slow, but the later chapters are quite good.
In the realm of wish-fulfillment novels set in a bygone era, this one's considered somewhat intelligent. Couldn't they at least update four chapters a day? Two chapters while slacking off at work aren't enough!
The novel depicting the 1990s was quite immersive; it was good.