Officialdom: Reborn in the 90s, all I want to do is quit my job and make money.

Does everyone have to do it this way?!

Om-!

"Of course not!"

Without even thinking about it.

Lin Yu gave the answer subconsciously.

What a joke!

Jiangcheng has hundreds of state-owned enterprises and hundreds of thousands of workers waiting to be fed!

What the hell does that even mean?

This is a giant black hole that could drag the entire Jiangcheng City's finances into an abyss!

With the perspective of posterity, he understood it better than anyone else, and saw it clearly.

The state-owned enterprises of this era are deeply entrenched in problems, making them difficult to reverse.

Let alone his methods of "holding platform" and "worker shareholding".

Even if you copied all the successful business models from later generations, it wouldn't work!

Do you want to save all these messes?

Put money in?

One billion? Ten billion? One hundred billion?

not enough!

It's never enough!

That's a bottomless pit!

A bottomless pit of the times that can devour everything!

Letting it go is the wisest and most rational choice.

But...

Lin Yu's gaze swept over Lin Huaijun's old face, which was full of deep wrinkles and despair.

His gaze swept over Li Datou, Wang Jianguo, and the faces behind them, all weathered by time yet burning with the last glimmer of hope.

His heart sank.

He thought of the jokes, articles, and documentaries he saw online in later generations.

About this era, about that intense pain that swept through the entire republic.

A speck of dust in the era.

When it falls on an individual, it becomes a mountain.

he knows.

He understands everything.

But when this mountain, truly and undeniably, was about to crush these living, breathing people in front of him...

That feeling...

Fuck!

That's fucking damn good!

...

Lin Yu remained silent.

It tastes like ice water.

Pour it over their heads.

It extinguished the tiny flame that had just begun to ignite in the office.

The fervor on Li Datou's face froze.

The admiration in Wang Jianguo's eyes dimmed.

The last trace of color drained from Lin Huaijun's desperate face.

It’s over.

Hope is shattered.

They placed all their hopes on their savior, the omnipotent Director Lin.

Silence gave the cruelest answer.

The office was uncomfortably quiet.

Even the heads craning their necks to watch the spectacle at the door felt the suffocating desolation.

They looked at the young man slumped in the chair, his expression shifting constantly.

His gaze shifted from awe to confusion, and then to a hint of...disappointment.

Yes.

Miracles, after all, have their limits.

He can save one factory, two factories, ten factories.

Is it possible to save a city?

...

in the crowd.

Wang Yao put down her pen.

As she looked at the scene before her, she felt her heart clench.

She couldn't understand it.

She couldn't accept it at all!

She took a sudden step forward, her clear voice breaking the silence.

"So, you're out of options?"

Swish-!

All eyes turned to her instantly.

Wang Yao ignored everyone; she just stared intently at Lin Yu.

Flames flickered in those beautiful eyes.

"Is there really no way even you can do it?!"

She pointed at Lin Huaijun and Li Datou, her voice suddenly rising.

"They treat you like a god! Like their last hope!"

"And you, are you just going to stand by and watch them, hundreds of thousands of workers, be eliminated by the times?!"

"Then what gives you the right?!"

Wang Yao's voice was sharp and piercing.

"What makes you so special to Mayor Liang? What makes you receive such pampering that no one else gets?!"

"What gives you the right to sit here so comfortably, drinking tea and reading newspapers, doing absolutely nothing!"

"Just because you were born into a good family?!"

"Lin Yu! You don't deserve it!"

boom--!

Not worthy!

These two words sound like a little boy who has arrived in Hiroshima.

It exploded in Lin Yu's mind.

Yes.

On what grounds?

What gives him the right?

If it were yesterday, he would have just laughed it off.

Not worthy?

I fucking don't want it at all!

Let whoever wants to be paired up go ahead!

Hurry up and approve my resignation! I'm going to the South to live like a king!

But now...

Looking at those faces before me, filled with tears and hope.

Hearing those heart-wrenching questions all around him.

Lin Yu's heart felt as if it had been clenched tightly by something.

pain.

Excruciating pain.

Screw quitting my job and going into business!

To hell with the reform and opening-up policy!

Screw that 100 million small goal!

To hell with that big villa, little secretary!

Lao Tzu...

I'm fucking done this!

Lin Yu suddenly raised his head.

A terrifying glint suddenly appeared in those eyes that had always carried a hint of laziness and cynicism.

He seemed to be making a major decision.

"Who said that!"

A loud shout, like a thunderclap from a clear sky!

The shockwave made everyone in the office's eardrums buzz.

The anger on Wang Yao's face froze.

The despair on Li Datou and the others' faces froze.

Everyone stared at the young man who suddenly stood up from his chair, his body ramrod straight.

"Who says there's no way!"

Lin Yu's gaze swept across the entire room, finally settling on Wang Yao's astonished face.

"Some factories are eliminated; that's the law of the market, a choice made by the times! No one can change that!"

His voice made Wang Yao's heart sink.

So, it still doesn't work?

however.

Lin Yu's tone suddenly changed!

"but!"

"From my perspective, from the perspective of the municipal government, the answer is quite different!"

He turned around abruptly, pointing at Li Datou, Wang Jianguo, and Lin Huaijun!

"You've already taken the lead! You've proven with facts that your factory can survive, and thrive!"

"Then what are we waiting for!"

Lin Yu took a step forward, his momentum unstoppable!

"Don't they need people for production?!"

"Don't they need sales staff?!"

"Don't we need people for technology research and development and product upgrades?!"

A series of questions struck everyone's heart like a heavy hammer!

Li Datou and Wang Jianguo instinctively straightened their chests, their cheeks flushed red!

"Then give it your all, go for development! Go for growth! To hell with chasing the spring breeze of reform and opening up!"

Lin Yu's voice had taken on a hint of roaring and madness!

He opened his arms and embraced the entire era!

"Turn yourself, turn your factory, into a giant ship!"

"A colossal ship of the times, capable of withstanding any storm!"

His gaze swept over all the stunned faces before him, and his voice resounded throughout the entire municipal party committee building.

"Then, take your families, your coworkers, those you don't want to abandon, those you can't bear to leave behind!"

"Pull them all onto the ship!"

"Let's ride the waves together!"