The Fiery Era: Becoming an Industrial Giant

Chapter 1 Zhou Zhiqiang in 1956

"Zhiqiang, I'm entrusting my daughter to you from now on."

When Zhou Zhiqiang opened his eyes again, he found a stranger standing in front of him, and behind him was a train that was about to depart, although it looked a bit old.

Who is this old man?

The thought had barely crossed Zhou Zhiqiang's mind when a vast flood of memories surged into his head.

He is Zhou Zhiqiang, originally from Hongqi Village, Sanhe Township, Changping County, Beijing. However, he was smart and good at learning from a young age.

Although his family initially didn't want him to study, he was fortunate to have met a good teacher and a good village chief.

When his family didn't want him to go to school and wanted him to go back to farming, the teachers and village chief in the township took turns persuading them, saying that it wasn't easy for the child to go to school.

Moreover, even if Zhou Zhiqiang only graduated from high school, he could find a job in the city, which would be much more promising than staying in the countryside.

In the past, that would have been a Xiucai (a scholar who passed the county-level imperial examinations), someone who could take the provincial-level examinations to become a Juren (a scholar who passed the provincial-level imperial examinations), and perhaps even a Zhuangyuan (the top scholar in the imperial examinations).

Only after being persuaded by the village chief and the local junior high school teacher did Zhou Zhiqiang's family allow him to continue his schooling.

However, although his family agreed to let Zhou Zhiqiang continue his schooling, they often gave him less food and money. It should be said that they didn't give him any money, and only occasionally gave him food.

Normally, it's delivered once a month, but the original owner's family delivered it at most four times a year, and often they were still short.

If it weren't for the fact that the teachers at the township middle school and the village head knew about this situation and often saved money to send food to Zhou Zhiqiang, and continued to subsidize him privately, no matter how smart Zhou Zhiqiang was, he would not have been able to get into university.

Zhou Zhiqiang was also very successful. He was the top student in his village in junior high school, and when he went to high school in Changping County, he was the top student there as well.

He then took the college entrance examination and was admitted to Sijiucheng Industrial College.

At university, he also found a good professor who took him on as a student and gave Zhou Zhiqiang a lot of private tutoring.

It can be said that, apart from his family, everyone Zhou Zhiqiang encountered on his path to education provided him with considerable help.

The old man standing at the train boarding gate is Zhou Zhiqiang's professor from university, and also his new father-in-law.
After experiencing all of the original owner's memories in an instant, Zhou Zhiqiang realized that he had transmigrated and entered the body of someone else named Zhou Zhiqiang.

He came from a rural background, was diligent and eager to learn, was intelligent, and was a college graduate.

Back in 1955 and 1966, college students were considered the cream of the crop, and Zhou Zhiqiang was among the first batch of people to take the college entrance examination and get into university.

Moreover, after graduation, he was valued by a professor who arranged for Zhou Zhiqiang to marry his daughter.

Right after they received their marriage certificate, the professor and his wife took a train to the Northwest to support industrial development.

Zhou Zhiqiang said, "Dad, I will take good care of Yuting."

I wanted to say something else, but the words changed as soon as they reached my lips.

Guo Linhua took good care of him—no, I should say he was very kind to the original owner of this body. He often provided food for him during his school years. He was a teacher at the Sijiu City Industrial College.

Guo Linhua was recently promoted to a level four associate professor, earning a little over two hundred yuan a month. Before the salary reform, Guo Linhua was quite wealthy, and he had a considerable fortune.

Moreover, Guo Linhua provided considerable assistance to Zhou Zhiqiang after graduation, finding him a good factory job and helping him complete a blueprint inspection at the factory, thus earning him a merit during his internship.

To go to this extent, it's safe to say that even helping one's own son wouldn't be more extreme.

So when Guo Linhua tried to matchmake the original owner of this body with his daughter Guo Yuting, the original owner didn't object at all. He obediently followed the steps, met Guo Yuting, and then got married and registered their marriage.

However, Guo Linhua received a very urgent task. The day after Zhou Zhiqiang and his daughter Guo Yuting got their marriage certificate, which is today, Guo Linhua had already packed his things and come to the train station.

Guo Linhua and his wife went to the Northwest together, not only to support the development of the Northwest, but also because their eldest son, Zhou Zhiqiang's brother-in-law, was also in the Northwest.

The place Guo Linhua went to happened to be the place his son had built, and now that he's there, they can live together.

It was the combination of the aid mission and his eldest son's presence that led Guo Linhua to bring his wife to the Northwest.

“Zhiqiang, I believe in you. You are a self-disciplined and strong-willed child. Yuting was spoiled by me when she was little, so she has a bit of a bad temper. Please be more tolerant of her.” Guo Linhua patted Zhou Zhiqiang on the shoulder and said, “I’m entrusting the family to you. We will write to you after we are settled. We will contact you by telegram or letter at that time.”

"I see, Dad."

Zhou Zhiqiang didn't know what to say at this moment. Having just transmigrated, he could only continue to follow the original owner's behavior.

Moreover, after receiving the original owner's memories, he was more or less affected and developed some respect for Professor Guo Linhua, who was wholeheartedly for the original owner's good.

"Dad, write to me often when you get there. I'll send you a message if anything happens here."

After Zhou Zhiqiang finished speaking, he saw that the train conductor was already shouting that the train was about to depart, so he quickly helped Guo Linhua and his wife carry their things onto the train.

After settling in, there was no time to say anything more, so Guo Linhua and his wife had to let Zhou Zhiqiang study properly by the window.

Zhou Zhiqiang breathed a sigh of relief after the train left.

Having just transmigrated and already facing such a predicament, it's quite a test.

Besides, he's doing just fine, so why does he have to transmigrate here? It doesn't make sense!

And there seems to be something in his head that helped him come from another world?

Zhou Zhiqiang calmed himself down and quickly figured out how to use the 'golden finger' in his mind.

[Collect Deduction Assistant]

[Collected: (Not Submitted)]

[Depending on whether it was simulated: (Not submitted)]

[Reward Claim: (None)]

There are only two functions: collecting information and then spending time deducing it.

Somewhat like computer AI
For example, Zhou Zhiqiang is a middleman for information. He doesn't know what the other side of the "golden finger" is, but as long as he collects and summarizes the information and submits the summarized information and requirements, he can get the predicted results after a period of time.

That alone is already incredibly powerful, but it seems this cheat code will also give him a reward after successfully deducing the solution.

As for what the reward was, Zhou Zhiqiang had no idea; he had never used it.

However, this cheat code is not unlimited in use. After it is used up, there is a cooldown period of up to a month, and the time required for deduction is uncertain.

Even so, it's still a very powerful boost.

Zhou Zhiqiang thought for a moment. He had also inherited all of the original owner's memories, including the knowledge he had learned during his four years at the Sijiu City Industrial University and his six months of work experience at the Sijiu City Dafeng Machinery Manufacturing Plant.

In this era, he wasn't the best, but he was doing quite well in the middle class.

"Let's go, how long are you going to stand there like that?"

Suddenly a voice rang out beside him. Zhou Zhiqiang turned his head and saw a woman in a Lenin suit with delicate features talking to him.

"If you miss my dad, you can just write him a letter in a while. You two are really something, always together. I think you're the one who's his child, and I'm the outsider."

Guo Yuting said irritably, "Let's go. I only took half a day off today, and I still have to go back to the hospital. Can you give me a ride on your bike?"

"Row."

After Zhou Zhiqiang finished speaking, he walked out of the station with Guo Yuting, his nominal wife.

The two had just gotten their marriage certificate and hadn't done anything yet, not even a wedding banquet.

(End of this chapter)