[Civil War] [Business War] [Calm and Decisive] [Gilded Age] [Technological Explosion]
Alan, a business elite, died in a car accident under a heavy truck, but his soul accidentally traveled to New York in 1860 and became a 19-year-old Irish youth with nothing.
With only $75 in his pocket, he built a canning factory from scratch using modern business thinking, expanding it to become a company. During the turbulent years of the Civil War, his assets soared thanks to precise planning.
With the advent of the Gilded Age, he expanded into oil, steel, military industry, railroads, and even ventured into media, real estate, electrical technology, and the hotel industry. From a contemporary elite to a 19th-century pauper, how did he create a multi-faceted, top-tier family tycoon in America a century ago?
(Struggle for hegemony. Unification. Cool writing. Legacy of Wei Wu)
Traveling through the Three Kingdoms, he became a down-and-out relative of the Han royal family and intercepted Guan Yu and Zhang Fei at the beginning.
In order to survive in this chaotic world, one can only choose to join the army, go through hardships, cut through thorns and brambles, pacify the Yellow Turbans, be granted a title and appointed as a general, establish one's own territory, recruit civil and military officials, train elite troops, hold power over the world, sleep on the lap of a beauty, and watch the changes in the situation.
When the time comes, I will lead tens of thousands of cavalrymen, ride on mountains and rivers, and swallow up the world like a tiger. I will sweep away all the heroes in the world, unify the country, build the Han Dynasty for the third time, and make the Han Dynasty last forever.
This is a time of great powers: The vast Persia, Sparta that was founded by force, Athens with its trade and business, Thebes the rising star, The ambitious Macedonia, The twin heroes of the Western Mediterranean, The rising Rome and so on.
This is an era of brilliant stars: Agesilaus II – the last king of Sparta, Epaminondas – the Rising General of Thebes, Philip II – the founder of Macedonian’s hegemon, Dionysius – the tyrant of Syracuse, Camillus – the Roman dictator and savior…
This is an era of contention among a hundred schools of thought: Plato – the great philosopher, Antisthenes – founder of cynicism, Pythagoras – school of number, Democritus – the encyclopedia scholar, Hippocrates – the father of western medicine, Aristophanes – the great dramatist…
What will the hero bring to the world when he comes to this age as a humble mercenary through rebirth?