[I have written tens of millions of words to complete this work. It has no system and no toxicity. Please feel free to read it.]

Reborn in 2001 when the Internet was rapidly rising, Cheng Yi decided to start from the traditional industry of Internet cafes and say "fuck you" to the global IT industry.

In his previous life, he became a minion of IT capital, using code as shackles to squeeze the last drop of blood out of traditional industries.

In this life, he uses Internet cafes as spears and industries as shields, and vows to tame this greedy, worldly-devouring technological giant into a data-driven ox serving the real economy.

Cheng Yi, during his entrepreneurial period, said: "Bill Gates once said that whoever controls the internet cafes can control the entire internet."

[Cheng Yi said at his peak]: "If any internet company dares to compete with peddlers for jobs, we will kill it."

[Cheng Yi, in retirement, said]: "Don't call me the patron saint of traditional industries. I'm just born with a rebellious streak."

[Cheng Yi said in the epitaph]: "This is the last hole I dug for the world."

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?