A laboratory explosion. Cheng Gong travels back in time from 2025 to Hong Kong in 1977. Starting as a penniless second-generation rich kid, Cheng Gong rapidly rises from a small factory owner to a financial tycoon. He accumulates vast wealth through trading in London gold, New York gold, Chicago gold, soybean futures, and silver futures. From preemptively buying into the American-owned Yonggao Company before Mr. Li, he acquires Wharf Holdings, Green Island Holdings, Hutchison Whampoa, China Bus, Kowloon Motor Bus, Hong Kong Electric, Wheelock Properties, Chinese Estates Holdings, Miramar Hotel, Overseas Trust Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, and more. He is the only person to have an undefeated record of consecutive acquisitions in Hong Kong's capital market; he is a god in the investment world, with his wealth increasing by 30%.
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!"
(City + Farming + Daily Life + Entrepreneurship + Agriculture + Vegetable Industry)
[A 2.3 million-word masterpiece: Developing the Northwest Starts with Seeds]
Vegetable farmer Chen Jiazhi traveled back to 1994.
He was 21 years old that year. He left his hometown and came to Huacheng, starting his first career as a vegetable farmer.
Then, a novice vegetable farmer suffered a series of setbacks: plum rains caused root rot, heavy rains wiped out the harvest, typhoons and floods, high temperatures and droughts, and a cold wave...
Now, he has a chance to do it again.
For vegetable farmers, bad weather is both a disaster and an opportunity.
And he seemed to have some luck.
An accidental seed saving revealed a one-in-a-million chance of optimal mutation...
In 1978, in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong Island, Chen Bingwen looked at the headline of the Sing Tao Daily:
He knew that he was reborn in the most perfect era.
In this life, he no longer competes on the chessboard, he wants to take control of the game - starting with a bowl of sugar water, and building an industrial empire that controls the heartbeat of the universe!
"Li Ka-shing took 20 years to become Superman, and I took 5 years to crush Superman."
The meaning of rebirth is not to repeat history, but to turn history into my stepping stone.
[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?
Rebirth + business war + making money + layout + period writing + fast pace + big imagination
Rebirth of 1977!
In this life, his father became the world's shipping king and had a huge amount of information about the future in his mind.
With a thunderous strike, he captured Kowloon Wharf.
The acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa was completed without bloodshed.
Strike back and seize Wheelock.
。。。
There are no four major families, no four major trading companies.
There are only the Bao family’s cities and ports in Hong Kong.
Standing in Hong Kong, overlooking the world.
Beauty, technology, and talent are all at your fingertips.
Many years later, looking back, he has become the world's leading tycoon who belongs to him.
Time magazine once described a man with these words:
"Mr. Yang is a great inventor whose creations have transformed the lives of hundreds of millions, changing the way people live, work, and travel. At the same time, his innovations have created millions of jobs, making a remarkable contribution to regional economies."
However, no one could have anticipated that the successful entrepreneur Yang Wendong would unexpectedly travel back in time to the 1950s.
Given a second chance at life, he is determined to start from scratch once again. This time, he aims for the very pinnacle of the era, establishing a legendary business empire that will stand the test of time and bring global recognition to Chinese entrepreneurship.
— From the author of the highly acclaimed novel Rebirth of an Industrial Tycoon. If you enjoyed that story, you won’t want to miss this one!