Chapter Summaries

Hailufeng Company began buying and shipping Renzhen Town’s navel oranges after its inspections confirmed they met quality standards. The chapter ended with the fruit selling briskly at the company’s Shanghai stores, while the purchasing operation continued.

• Hailufeng’s inspection teams approved Li Gensheng’s orchard, and the company’s workers sorted and labeled its navel oranges for traceability.
• Li Gensheng and Li Wenlong delivered 85,030 jin of accepted fruit to Zhan Kaiwen’s purchasing center and received 255,090 yuan.
• Li Gensheng sold the rejected oranges to a local buyer for 1.30 yuan per jin.
• Hailufeng shipped nearly 450,000 jin of navel oranges to markets across China, including its specialty stores.
• Ye Linlin sold navel oranges to customers at the Baoshan branch, while Lu Xingzhi’s Huangpu branch quickly sold through its stock and requested another delivery.

Jiang Xia inspected Hai Lu Feng Company’s Guangzhou Warehouse Supermarket, where strong demand for affordable produce and the company’s supply, logistics, and employee policies explained its low losses. Jiang Miao approved expanding the supermarket model but held off on outside fast-moving consumer goods partnerships, instead arranging loans and research into acquiring factories; the chapter ended with him monitoring a Hong Kong listed company with a complicated ownership structure.

• Jiang Xia toured the Guangzhou Warehouse Center with Zhang Xiaolong and learned that its Warehouse Supermarket faced shortages of produce, other consumer goods, and locations.
• Jiang Xia realized that vegetables and fruit, rather than fish products, were selling out because produce supplies were insufficient, and Wang Yuzhang reported strong navel orange sales and no customer returns.
• Jiang Xia explained how careful supplier screening, company logistics, and employee benefits helped keep product defects and supermarket losses low.
• Jiang Xia traveled to Focheng to prepare another Warehouse Supermarket, while Gao Ying and Qin Sixian prepared new locations in Goose City and Shanghai.
• Jiang Miao decided to postpone adding outside fast-moving consumer goods, planned to borrow 20 billion for acquisitions, and instructed Ye Meijing and Qin Hanming to arrange financing and investigate potential factory acquisitions.
• Qin Hanming reported progress investigating a Hong Kong listed company with mysterious offshore shareholders, and Jiang Miao ordered him to keep monitoring it.

Yang Lingyu’s team installed and brought Guangzhou Warehouse Center’s microbial fuel-cell power room online, enabling the site to supply its own electricity. Power bureau engineers inspected the system and were impressed by its controllable output as Southern Grid began examining the technology in Shanmei.

• Yang Lingyu oversaw installation of 150 battery boxes and supporting equipment at Guangzhou Warehouse Center, then trained Lao Fang to operate the system safely.
• Yang Lingyu’s team filled the battery boxes with microbial battery fluid and tested the system until it generated electricity normally.
• Li Haitao explained that the power room could supply the warehouse center, and he arranged for the power bureau to remove the site’s electric meters.
• Du Guobiao and the other power engineers inspected the control room and learned that the system’s output could be regulated from zero to 36.5 kilowatts.
• Li Haitao described the system’s costs and plans to expand it and open a charging station, while the engineers discussed its potential for power dispatch.
• Southern Grid sent people to Shanmei to inspect Hai Lu Feng Company’s Microbial Fuel Cell Technology.

Lin Shuya showed Nan Dian Group representatives the microbial fuel cell power generation base and explained its operation and commercial potential. The delegation left without making a decision, and another company came to Hai Lu Feng Company less than three days later.

• Wang Shanhe led a Nan Dian Group delegation to the Gongping Town Biofuel Experiment Base, where Lin Shuya and Zhang Guangyu welcomed them.
• Zhang Guangyu showed the visitors the Xianjie No. 1 system, and Lin Shuya and Dr. Ma Zhiyao discussed its technology.
• Wang Shanhe learned about the system’s capacity, equipment size, costs, and possible fuel sources, then returned to headquarters to brief Nan Dian Group’s management.
• Lin Shuya considered the technology’s costs and market, while Jiang Miao’s strategy focused on large livestock enterprises rather than grid-connected power sales.
• Less than three days after the inspection team left, another company that had previously worked closely with Hai Lu Feng Company came to visit.

Xue Hua decided Hai Da Group would invest in a biofuel project at its Gaozhou pig farm, and Hai Lu Feng Company finalized a cooperation agreement with the group. As construction preparations began, Zhang Haitao expanded the Biofuel Division and diversified suppliers, while Hai Lu Feng's new ceramic-liner orders sent manufacturers scrambling to increase production.

• Xue Hua inspected the Gongping Town biofuel base, assessed the project's potential returns and risks with his colleagues, and chose to invest in a Gaozhou facility.
• Xue Hua and Zhang Haitao negotiated a preliminary agreement for a 100,000-box project, with Hai Da Group paying 1.154 billion yuan for the project and 50 million yuan annually in patent fees.
• Jiang Miao promoted Zhang Haitao to manager of the Biofuel Division, which began forming its departments and preparing the Gaozhou project after Hai Da Group approved the deal.
• Zhang Haitao ordered components and asked the Purchasing Department to seek additional suppliers to reduce procurement risks for the Gaozhou project and Hai Lu Feng Company's planned projects.
• Tan Gaoming learned that Hai Lu Feng Company had ordered 100,000 ceramic liners from Tan's Ceramics, arranged financing and expanded production, while other ceramic companies pursued the posted procurement projects.

At Hai Lu Feng Company's year-end meeting, division heads reported strong 2026 results, led by the Planting and Technology divisions, while the Entity Division's property purchases drove a large loss. Jiang Miao learned that the company had generated 27.3 billion yuan in revenue and 13.1 billion yuan in gross profit, excluding several affiliated businesses.

• Zhang Xincheng reported that the Aquatic Products Division earned 7.8 billion yuan in revenue and 3.613 billion yuan in gross profit.
• Fang Yi reported that the Feed Division earned 3.535 billion yuan in revenue and 1.613 billion yuan in gross profit.
• Du Liheng reported that the Planting Division earned 7.281 billion yuan in revenue and 6.634 billion yuan in gross profit.
• Zhang Chengdong reported that the Technology Division earned 8.073 billion yuan in patent fees and 4.948 billion yuan in gross profit.
• Jiang Xia reported that the Entity Division's property purchases led to a loss of about 3.9 billion yuan, while its 346 stores had earned 172 million yuan in cumulative revenue.
• Jiang Miao heard that the E-commerce Division had made a 47.28-million-yuan profit and that the company's divisions had generated 27.3 billion yuan in revenue and 13.1 billion yuan in gross profit.

Jiang Miao announced Hai Lu Feng Company's profits, virtual-share dividends, and year-end bonuses before the Supervision Department reported widespread violations and punishments. At the Mo Nan Branch, Wang Fanghua and her family considered settling there and explored the warm greenhouses, where Dong Anqing enjoyed fresh strawberries.

• Ye Meijing reported that Hai Lu Feng Company had earned a net profit of 9.225148801 billion yuan, and Jiang Miao announced a one-yuan dividend per virtual share.
• Wang Haochen reported that 1,406 new employees received virtual shares, bringing the total allocation to 87.01 million shares.
• Jiang Miao granted all employees two extra months of salary, and Li Haoran announced that 27 people had been dismissed while 49 had deductions imposed.
• Wang Fanghua and her husband discussed settling at the Mo Nan Branch, where they hoped to buy an apartment and enroll Dong Anqing in a future company school.
• Wang Fanghua received a 17,000-yuan year-end bonus and took Dong Anqing to the greenhouse supermarket and strawberry farm.
• Dong Anqing picked and ate strawberries, while Wang Fanghua decided the 50-yuan basket was worth buying.

In early 2027, Jiang Miao reviewed the economic changes and agricultural expansion driven by Hai Lu Feng Company, while his experimental silk and spider-silk soybeans continued toward their first results in April. He then explained Microbial Fuel Cell Technology to Nan Dian Group, whose interest in peak-shaving power generation was dampened by the technology’s limited feedstock options.

• Jiang Miao learned that desert transformation bases and new farms had created jobs and boosted demand for domestic agricultural machinery, while companies expanded livestock and feed production.
• Hai Lu Feng Company arranged for COFCO Group to manage two million mu in the Tengger Desert, and Jiang Miao reported that 20 experimental silk and spider-silk soybean varieties were growing.
• Jiang Miao met Nan Dian Group representatives Zhou Yadong and Wang Shanhe and answered their questions about the fuel cells’ efficiency, output, and spent solution.
• Jiang Miao explained that farm and plant waste could become biogas and fertilizer after processing, while household waste required sorting and heavy-metal removal.
• Jiang Miao told Zhou Yadong that waste-incineration plants already lacked enough garbage and that Microbial Fuel Cell Technology was inherently best suited to farm and rural waste, disappointing the group’s plans for peak-shaving stations.

Nan Dian Group and other new-energy companies rejected Microbial Fuel Cell Technology as a grid-balancing solution, while Jiang Miao kept its bacterial strains and technology tightly controlled. After Gu Haijing and Gu Baiming discussed their surplus solar power with Hai Lu Feng Company, Zhang Xincheng arranged a partnership that would let the companies use the electricity directly.

• Nan Dian Group's inspection team left without taking a contract, and other new-energy companies stayed away from Microbial Fuel Cell Technology because its output and fuel supply did not suit grid needs.
• New Hope Group, Muyuan Shares, and Double-Twin Group sent teams to inspect the technology, while Hai Lu Feng Company restricted foreign cooperation and protected its self-limiting Electricity-Generating Bacteria strains.
• Zhang Haitao explained to Gu Haijing and Gu Baiming that their unstable solar power and limited grid-access quota could not be solved by the simplified algae-fuel system.
• Zhang Haitao invited Gu Haijing and Gu Baiming to meet Zhang Xincheng at Hai Lu Feng Company's headquarters.
• Gu Haijing agreed to form a solar power company with Hai Lu Feng Company, giving Haijing Company 90 percent of the shares and Hai Lu Feng Company controlling rights over the venture.
• The companies signed an agreement for Hai Lu Feng Company to buy Haijing Company's surplus solar electricity at 0.15 yuan per kilowatt-hour and use it at its nearby aquaculture base.

Jiang Miao inspected Hai Lu Feng Company’s Lufeng aquaculture base, including its new underground cold-storage system and experimental seafood farms. He approved the early results for warm-water mixed farming and cold-water Arctic Sweet Shrimp and King Crabs, which were being raised to make the facilities more productive.

• Li Xiangzhe showed Jiang Miao the six-chamber Black Stone Mountain cold-storage facility and explained how its chilled water served the aquaculture pools.
• Jiang Miao inspected the salmon farms and the mixed-farming pools for Giant Conch, Ornate Spiny Lobsters, Spotted Dongfeng Snails, and Mantis Shrimp.
• Jiang Miao visited the cold-water facilities and learned that the first batch of Arctic Sweet Shrimp fry had been stocked for twelve days.
• Jiang Miao examined the juvenile King Crabs and reviewed how their growth, stocking density, and harvest schedules compared with Arctic Sweet Shrimp.
• Jiang Miao concluded that Arctic Sweet Shrimp and King Crabs could profitably use the farm’s ultra-low-temperature pools, including otherwise wasted space.

Jiang Miao inspected Salt Town Aquaculture Farm, tasted its Superior Grade oysters, and arranged to rename them Yan Ting Oysters while helping local villagers organize a cooperative. After reviewing Hai Lu Feng Company’s farming and sales strategy, he returned home and found He Youwei looking dejected as he spoke with Shu Ya.

• Jiang Miao tasted the farm’s Triploid Oysters and confirmed their flavor and quality were suitable for the Superior Grade label.
• Jiang Miao renamed the oysters Yan Ting Oysters and asked Lin Yonggong to arrange an oyster farming cooperative with the village committee.
• Jiang Miao inspected other Superior Grade aquatic products and resolved to accelerate the One Village, One Product plan through centralized farming and water treatment.
• Jiang Miao considered how Hai Lu Feng Company’s direct sales network and strict standards supported high-quality products and local consumer demand.
• Jiang Miao returned home and saw He Youwei chatting dejectedly with Shu Ya.

He Youwei abandoned her attempt to develop a mass-produced lupus drug and accepted Jiang Miao’s offer to lead a Lupus Specialist Department at Hai Lu Feng Hospital, while planning research into hyperuricemia. Meanwhile, Jiang Miao tracked Soros’s attack on a Hong Kong bank and waited for the Quantum Fund to weaken it before acquiring it cheaply.

• He Youwei told Jiang Miao that her lupus research could produce personalized treatments but not an effective general medication.
• Jiang Miao offered He Youwei a Lupus Specialist Department at Hai Lu Feng Hospital, physician training, and an upgraded Nuwa diagnostic system.
• Jiang Miao suggested hyperuricemia as He Youwei’s next research direction, and she agreed.
• He Youwei left for Beijing to celebrate the New Year after spending the afternoon with Shu Ya.
• Jiang Miao noticed the Quantum Fund increasing its short positions against a Hong Kong bank and recognized that Soros had begun his move.
• Jiang Miao’s New Century Fund secretly controlled 13.9% of the bank’s shares, and he waited for the Quantum Fund to weaken the bank before making an acquisition.

Jiang Miao warned New Century Fund about Quantum Fund’s planned attack on Hong Kong and Zhong Liwen prepared a counterstrike. In Shanmei, Hai Lu Feng’s seafood business surged as customers flocked to buy its aquaculture products, especially Yan Ting oysters.

• Jiang Miao sent New Century Fund intelligence predicting that Quantum Fund would launch its offensive on the first trading day after the Spring Festival.
• Zhong Liwen decoded forty-seven reports, then planned to report Quantum Fund’s target institutions and trigger trading suspensions while New Century Fund bought shares in the key bank.
• Zhong Liwen assigned management to infiltrate Quantum Fund and prepare attacks on its investments in other markets.
• At Hai Lu Feng Specialty Store, Boss Lin tasted Yan Ting oysters and arranged to order more, while Old Chen agreed to help him prepare marinated mud crabs.
• Customers bought out the store’s mud crabs, oysters, Giant River Prawns, and White Shrimp in under two hours, and Manager Luo Weimin saw aquatic-product sales exceed 90,000 yuan.
• Hai Lu Feng’s limited Yan Ting Oyster supply reached the Pearl River Delta, where oyster lovers praised it and high-end restaurants placed substantial orders.

Jiang Miao and Shu Ya developed Honeycomb Gel batteries from Electricity-Generating Bacteria, discovering a way to regulate their charging and discharging power. The chapter left the technology poised for use in low-cost energy storage and battery-swapping applications, especially for heavy vehicles.

• Shu Ya showed Jiang Miao that her soybean-fed Electricity-Generating Bacteria had formed Honeycomb Gel capable of storing large amounts of energy.
• Jiang Miao used the Appraisal Panel to investigate the gel and suggested increasing oxygen concentration, which raised its output but caused it to catch fire.
• Jiang Miao identified how phosphorus and nitrogen atoms enabled rapid electron movement, then guided Shu Ya and her assistants in developing LED-controlled power regulation using Soybean Oil and Potassium Chloride.
• The researchers produced a gel battery that stored 450 kilowatt-hours per cubic meter and could switch its charging and discharging power between 0 and 96 kilowatts.
• Jiang Miao assessed the battery's low cost, environmental benefits, limited cycle life, and temperature needs, concluding it suited energy storage and battery swapping for large vehicles.

Hai Lu Feng Company took control of Shanmei Bus Company, promising to clear unpaid wages while preparing to overhaul its loss-making operations. After Liu Deming warned employees to leave voluntarily if they had misconduct to hide, much of the old management resigned and the bus company’s operations stabilized under interim leaders.

• City officials approached Jiang Miao about investing in Shanmei Bus Company, and he chose to acquire Yueyun Company’s eighty-percent stake after learning about the bus system’s losses and battery problems.
• Jiang Miao explained that Shu Ya’s new battery technology could help turn the bus company around and said it would also serve as a testing ground for mass production.
• Hai Lu Feng Company acquired Yueyun Company’s stake for one yuan, injected 200 million yuan, and paid employees their overdue wages plus an extra month’s salary.
• At an employee assembly, Liu Deming promised not to pursue past misconduct but warned employees to consider leaving before the new management arrived.
• Lao Liu and Lin Huo Lin collected their wages and discussed the takeover over a meal, while Liu Deming approved thirty-six resignation letters and prepared new interim managers.
• Nearly seventy percent of the bus company’s management resigned, and Liu Deming’s team replaced them with transferred and promoted staff, stabilizing normal operations.

Jiang Miao hired Lei Bo and his quality-management team to help establish Hai Lu Feng Company's Battery Division. After seeing the Sponge Battery production process and testing its performance on buses, Lei Bo recognized the technology's potential and joined the company's battery trials.

• Jiang Miao offered Lei Bo and his eight-person team positions in the Battery Division with a three-month probationary period.
• Lei Bo brought his family to Shanmei for the New Year and, on the third day, took colleagues to visit the Gongping Town biofuel base.
• Zhang Haitao showed Lei Bo's group how workers made Sponge Batteries in the experimental workshop.
• Lei Bo watched the batteries charge and discharge successfully, confirming their performance in tests.
• Lao Liu and Lin Huo Lin drove modified K7 buses around Haifeng County, where Lei Bo rode along and observed passengers using the onboard vending machine.

Lei Bo observed the bus company's trial bus and hub station as Liu Deming explored adding solar power, energy storage, and new uses for the company's facilities. Jiang Miao developed plans for leasing Sponge Battery to renewable-energy companies and selling it for transportation, while Hai Lu Feng Company prepared to scale production; the chapter ended with Hong Kong's financial market reopening after the Spring Festival.

• Lao Liu drove the trial bus steadily around the city, and Lei Bo observed its vending machine, battery use, and ride quality.
• Lei Bo met Liu Deming at the Xinlou Village Hub Station, where Liu brought photovoltaic company staff to assess the site.
• Lei Bo considered how the bus company could use its hub stations for parking, charging, car washing, and future battery swaps.
• Jiang Miao planned a leasing model for Sponge Battery used in solar and wind power, while transportation companies would buy batteries directly for Hai Lu Feng Company to recover later.
• The bus company replaced batteries on eighty-six K7 Buses, and Lei Bo prepared a larger battery factory and completed the required patents and procedures.
• Hong Kong's financial market began trading after the Spring Festival.

Zhong Liwen and New Century Fund exploited New Asia Bank’s financial scandal and ensuing stock collapse to take control of the bank, while a regulatory intervention thwarted Quantum Fund’s attack on Hong Kong’s financial institutions. As New Century Fund launched a worldwide counterattack, Quantum Fund’s leadership and operations collapsed.

• Quantum Fund and New Century Fund sold and shorted New Asia Bank shares as reports exposed the bank’s Kefu acquisition fraud; a major shareholder fled, and regulators suspended trading.
• After New Asia Bank resumed trading, its market value plunged, but regulators suspended trading in all seventeen targeted financial companies before Quantum Fund could expand its attack.
• Zhong Liwen bought the major shareholders’ stakes for fifty cents per share, bringing New Century Fund’s control of New Asia Bank to 93.6%, then announced its privatization and a share purchase offer.
• Hong Kong’s regulators froze speculative capital accounts and investigated the targeted companies, while New Century Fund launched attacks on Quantum Fund and its partners worldwide.
• Quantum Fund’s European funds were frozen and its investment bank was exposed for fraud; its leader suffered a heart attack, and the fund fell apart as its partners abandoned it.
• After the leader awoke in hospital, Doctor Smith told staff to demand payment or discharge him; when his wife said she could not pay and wanted him sent to a shelter, the old man died.

After New Century Fund acquired New Asia Bank, Jiang Miao let the regulators’ investigations and privatization process proceed while Hai Lu Feng Company restored its operations. Wang Hanbo revamped the bus company with electric buses, onboard vending, upgraded shelters, and dedicated routes, and early sales showed promise as the company continued its recovery.

• Jiang Miao kept Hai Lu Feng Company focused on domestic growth while Zhong Liwen prepared to restore New Asia Bank amid expected regulatory investigations.
• Wang Hanbo took over as general manager of the bus company, moved its headquarters to the Tengfei Road hub, and reviewed Li Yuansheng’s electric-bus modifications and vending-machine designs.
• Wang Hanbo approved photovoltaic bus shelters with battery storage and vending machines, integrated bus cards with other company businesses, and assigned distinct paint schemes to standard, tourist, and student-and-office-worker buses.
• Modified buses began trial operations in Shanmei, where a dedicated breakfast bus turned away an elderly passenger but served students and workers who bought food onboard.
• The six student-and-office-worker buses sold three hundred to four hundred yuan of breakfast each during the morning rush, boosting Wang Hanbo’s confidence while he continued monitoring the company’s recovery.

Zhang Xincheng inspected Gaokeng Base, where Hai Lu Feng Company was secretly turning an abandoned coal mine into a backup site with a hidden Electricity-Generating Bacteria workshop. He approved plans to make the base more self-sufficient and ordered the mine shafts investigated for use as underground water reservoirs before departing for Gannan North.

• Zhang Xincheng toured Gaokeng Base and discussed its concealed production workshops and nursery operations with Jiang Yaohua and his assistant.
• Jiang Yaohua proposed establishing a sanatorium to maintain medical facilities, and Zhang Xincheng suggested restoring historic sites as museums and libraries.
• Zhang Xincheng approved plans for a microbial power station, cattle and goat farms, and supporting agriculture to help Gaokeng Base become self-sufficient.
• Jiang Yaohua explained that the abandoned mine shafts held rising water and residual coal, but Zhang Xincheng ordered an investigation into reinforcing them for underground water storage and said the company would address contamination.
• Zhang Xincheng finished his inspection and left Gaokeng Base to visit the new farms in Gannan North.