[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?
In 1849, the California Gold Rush swept the world. But for Chen Mo, who had already been there for three months, it was not heaven, but hell. Driven away by white miners, he was forced to toil in vain on the barren riverbanks, exchanging his efforts for cold mud and "fools' gold." He faced ostracism from his fellow Chinese, who considered him an outsider because of his short hair and lack of a queue; nobody cared about him. The extortion from Master Chen, with his monthly protection fee of three dollars—more than his rent—suffocated him. Just when he was once again cornered in the river by thugs, his life hanging by a thread, he obtained the [Daily Intelligence System]! [Daily Intelligence: Jack Brown, who is smiling at you, is actually trying to rob and kill you.] [Daily Intelligence: A $250 nugget is buried under an oak tree 300 yards upstream!] [Daily Intelligence: Master Chen's...]
My uncle is the director of the FBI!
What?
You ask who I am?
Um, my last name is Hoover.
…………
In the early summer of 1960, a profiler was reborn as a rebellious young man.
He decided to bring a little technological shock to the criminals of that time.
[Fast-paced + No cheat codes + Lightning-fast revenge + Overwhelming troop deployment + A hodgepodge of film and comics]
(This book is also known as: One Man is an Army, I, the Fourth Calamity, and Reborn in America: From the Most Ruthless Bandit to the Emperor of America)
Good news: Hua Xu has transmigrated and awakened the Infinite Assassin System, sharing skills and vision, and can even possess assassins.
Bad news: I've been transported to 1898 America, where the Chinese Exclusion Act has already been passed, and I'm about to die.
Even worse news: Something's not right about this world. There's a gunslinger named Arthur Morgan in the neighboring Strawberry Town, a Hogwarts School in London, dark legends of vampires and werewolves circulating in Western Europe, a character named Muzan Kibutsuji in Japan, and legendary supernatural beings and zombies in China.
Hua Xu said: Since things are already in chaos, I wouldn't recommend making them even more chaotic!
Starting from the California wilderness, Huaxu rose rapidly.
Soon after, the style of painting in America changed, and a poem gradually began to circulate:
He was imposing and menacing, and all his personal gains were handed over to the authorities.
I'll make 95 out of 100; you know my methods.
Don't waste the remaining five dollars; you'll have to pay four dollars and eighty cents in taxes tomorrow.
Don't touch the remaining two cents; I might need them later.
Morgan, Rockefeller, and Childsfield: "A salute to our most beloved Emperor Mu!"
...
Years later, Hua Xu was embracing Louise on the Titanic when he suddenly received a mysterious message:
[A suicide bomber shares controlled nuclear fusion technology with you]
Hua Xu: "Huh??!"
(The following film and television elements are adapted, and the timeline may vary: Chinese Hero, Once Upon a Time in China series, Demon Slayer, Under the Others, Huo Yuanjia, Red Dead Redemption, Once Upon a Time in the West, Underworld, Harry Potter, etc.)
The protagonist: Unlucky enough to be caught in the time-travel trend, only to arrive in a desolate land. His parents: A weak nation and impoverished family, driven by anger, they crossed the ocean to struggle in a foreign land. Opportunity: This barren land, however, becomes a treasure trove in later generations, overflowing with minerals and oil. Theme 1: Establishing a nation through gold mining, focusing on large-scale construction, and maneuvering for their dreams. Theme 2: The Russo-Japanese War, the weak and incompetent motherland, leading to the partition of Tsarist Russia and the establishment of a Far East presence. Theme 3: World War I and World War II, the collapse of the world order, the rise of powerful nations…</li>
He traveled back in time to early independent America, a time before skyscrapers and railways, a time of crisis.
Externally, it faces competition from powerful nations; internally, it faces the unruly behavior of local inhabitants.
This is the beginning of scientific and technological innovation...