[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?

A sudden time travel reveals the New York of 1940. It's World War II, a bloody conflict marked not only battlefield bloodshed but also ideological confrontation. As the epicenter of the world, New York undoubtedly teemed with the brightest minds of the era. Hemingway, Asimov, Lewis Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Pearl S. Buck, Maugham, Gide, Lin Yutang, Fitzgerald... And then there were those fighting the Axis powers in Europe, Camus, Agatha Christie, George Orwell, Arthur C. Clarke... Ernie exclaimed, "Everyone here is a talent. I love it!"... Years later, a young man, a veteran of both battlefields and studies, emerges with a gun in one hand and a pen in the other, shining brightly and rising in this golden age of literature...

After transmigrating into a minor German noble, he embarks on a glorious journey of ambition and struggle amid the French Revolution and the era of the Directory.

The great and glorious Lord Andrew set foot in his faithful Paris in the year 1794.

In the cold winter of 1854, the small workshop in Genoa was on the verge of bankruptcy.

A mechanical engineer disguised himself as a fatherless military cadet, faced with a mountain of burlap, predatory loan sharks, and a mother with swollen eyes.

He grabbed a piece of war news from The Times and gambled his family's lives:

"I'll make the Brits' winter clothes!"

► 【The sewing machine is my Gatling gun! 】

★ Improved cotton fluffing machine? The Widow's Assembly Line boosts productivity!

Bribing Russian POWs? Confessions from Black Sea corpses become a deadly bargaining chip!

★ Gambling against the British Consul? The Ladder Agreement contains a sinister clause!

When the first pot of gold came into his pocket, he blatantly tore off his merchant coat——

► [From Bronze Ledger to Iron Throne]

❗ Newspaper predicts war: signed article ignites Turin, Cavour personally recruits!

❗ Private army surprise attack on the fortress: Nitroglycerin shatters the Bourbon dynasty, and thousands of black shirts are crowned knights on a bloody journey!

❗ Monopoly of sulfur hegemony: "One ton of sulfur for ten tons of grain", harvesting Sicily during famine!

In the turbulent times of roaring steam engines, he grasped the magic of bonds with his left hand and manipulated the struggle for supremacy among the great powers with his right hand:

Prussian-Austrian battlefield pits Austrian ships: sulfur-mixed coal explodes boiler, and Veneto is taken!

The Pope's Treasury moves gold: 50-year bonds to redeem the Holy City, and the Vatican is furious!

Suez secretly seizes shares: bottom-fishing at the window of France's defeat and strangling the throat of Europe and Asia!

When the Italian crown was crowned, he looked out over the Mediterranean:

"The so-called Caesar is nothing more than making the world believe—

The shadow that sits upon the Iron Throne is a god!"

An art student travels back in time to the reigning prince of the House of Orleans, coinciding with the American Civil War of 1861. How will he capitalize on the Civil War to secure his first fortune and launch his grand enterprise? How will he navigate the oceans to signal his return during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870? How will Britain, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Russia fight their way out of Western Europe's monstrous chamber? Can the Mediterranean become his inland sea? See how the protagonist becomes a global hegemon and spreads his influence across the globe!

Rebirth of the rural areas in the early 1980s of the reform and opening up, everything is the past, everything is the beginning, new challenges have begun, how should the protagonist’s life be written this time?

Submit to royal authority? Or usher in the age of capitalism in France?

The 17th century was a time of rising capital. In the Netherlands, merchants said “no” to the king for the first time and rose in rebellion. In England, the king was defeated by merchants and sent to the guillotine.

Alphonse de Moller, a sailor from a later era, is fortunate enough to become a capitalist in France.

Now, faced with the ever-rising Sun King Louis XIV—what choice should he make?

In 1914, the United States had transitioned from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Age, enjoying 40 years of peace and a comfortable environment, and was the world's most powerful nation.

As world war looms, the curtain slowly rises on a golden age of emerging aviation industry, and a time traveler arrives.

What mark can it leave in this turbulent era?

In the 1920s and 1930s, Shanghai was the largest city in the Far East, a paradise for adventurers, a ten-mile foreign venue for social gatherings, the Pearl of the Orient, and paradise on earth!

He traveled through time and became the second son of the Ye family in Shanghai, who returned from studying abroad. From the moment he stepped onto Shiliupu Pier, Ye Luo quietly started his journey to become a wealthy businessman.