Zhang Yi

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Zhang Yi (章一)
Alias(es)	Xiao Yi; Brother Zhang
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Seven Color Stone Group; Earth Federation Federal Space Force 361 601
Occupation/Role	Former electric-bike repairman; founder and chairman of Seven Color Stone Group; Five-Star Marshal of the Earth Federation 1 361 601
Status	Active 669
First Appearance	Chapter 1: Sudden Incident

Background

Zhang Yi comes from Xian County, a mountainous and economically underdeveloped area of Jiangnan Province. Before returning home, he spent five years in Hang City doing construction work, factory work, dishwashing, and eventually electric-bike repair. 1

He returned to Xian County after his father, Zhang Ming, was injured while saving a child from an oncoming car. With Zhang Ming unable to continue working normally because of his injured leg, Zhang Yi gave up outside employment and assumed responsibility for the family’s aging mechanical-processing workshop. 1 2

Zhang Yi’s fortunes changed after he obtained the Multiverse Scholar Hiring System. Unable to complete a precision order himself, he hired the Dwarf Race Elementary Mechanical Scholar Xiao Hua, whose skill allowed the workshop to take on work beyond Zhang Yi’s own technical ability. 4 5 6

Personality

Zhang Yi is pragmatic and strongly family-oriented. His father’s accident immediately drives him to abandon his job in Hang City and preserve the family workshop despite his lack of confidence as a machinist. 1 2 6

As his company expands, he remains cautious with major investments and technological disclosures. He avoids dubious CNC-machine suppliers, refuses many international offers for ultra-high-precision CNC machines, and prioritizes production capacity over short-term bearing orders. 15 135 190

He is protective of both his employees and his technology. After facing corporate intimidation and repeated attacks, he invests heavily in security personnel, combat support, and protective measures rather than yielding control of Seven Color Stone Group. 46 48 253 256

Zhang Yi also develops a stronger sense of public responsibility. Uncle Zhang’s warning that the Zhang family must not betray the country influences his approach to military cooperation and advanced technology. 89 329

Abilities & Skills

Multiverse Scholar Hiring System

Zhang Yi possesses the Multiverse Scholar Hiring System, which allows him to employ industrial scholars, engineers, geniuses, and later professional combat personnel from other universes.

• Initially limited to affordable entry-level human or human-like industrial scholars. 4
• Hired Xiao Hua as his first scholar for 60 Scholar Coins per year, solving the workshop’s immediate machining crisis. 5
• Expanded his workforce to include specialists in software, metallurgy, mechanical engineering, materials, aerospace, electronics, and computing. 38 48 256 257
• Uses system-hired talent as the foundation of Seven Color Stone Group’s rapid technological development. 33 67
• Gained access to professional combat support after threats against the group escalated, hiring 120 personnel led by Xiao Liancheng. 256

Industrial Management and Strategy

Zhang Yi grows a single family workshop into Seven Color Stone Group through investment, delegation, recruitment, and long-term planning.

• Delegates lower-priority work to Zhu Gang’s factory while retaining key production within his own company. 33
• Establishes research departments and recruits technical and managerial talent as the factory expands. 32 72
• Purchases land and factory buildings to secure space for large-scale expansion. 89
• Moves into bearings, precision machine tools, special glass, telescopes, aerospace, shipbuilding, energy, and space industry projects. 84 123 161 261
• Declines profitable orders when fulfilling them would compromise production capacity or strategic priorities. 135 190

Mechanical Knowledge

Zhang Yi begins with limited hands-on machining ability but gradually develops technical literacy through factory work and instruction from his scholars.

• Initially cannot independently process demanding precision spindles. 6
• Learns lathe operation from Xiao Hua while she completes major orders. 18
• Personally participates in inspection and troubleshooting of the high-precision bearing production line. 123
• Studies mechanical manufacturing under Elementary High-level Scholar Cheng Haitao, improving his grasp of difficult technical knowledge. 242

Crisis Management

Zhang Yi remains composed when confronted by hostile companies, kidnappers, and espionage threats.

• Refuses Jiangnan Province Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Group’s acquisition offers despite escalating pressure. 46
• Stalls armed kidnappers during an ambush while coordinating with his guards and waiting for military support. 254
• Responds to attacks on Seven Color Stone Group facilities by authorizing Xiao Qi’s connection to the internet and ordering countermeasures against the responsible forces. 257 258
• Raises security across the group after commercial spies target a technician. 350

Equipment and Assets

• Scholar Hiring System — His primary means of acquiring scholars, engineers, geniuses, tasks, and later professional combat support. 4 256
• Armored convoy vehicles — Low-profile vehicles modified with heavy bulletproof protection, stun weapons, close-range blinding lasers, and other defensive systems. 253
• Seven Color Stone Group supercomputer — A 3.65-exaflop supercomputer used for data processing and as the host system for Xiao Qi. 173 190
• Xiao Qi — A pseudo-artificial intelligence created by Seven Color Stone Group and personally named and configured by Zhang Yi. 190 192

Relationships

• Zhang Ming — His father, a former Xian County Mechanical Factory technician whose injury compels Zhang Yi to take over the family workshop. Zhang Yi later learns of his father’s respected technical career and role in the old factory’s history. 1 2 16
• Huang Xiru — Former employer, girlfriend, general manager of Seven Color Stone Group, and later Zhang Yi’s wife. Their relationship develops from mutual support in Hang City into a long-term partnership in both business and private life. 1 157 159 428
• Xiao Hua — Dwarf Race mechanical scholar hired as Zhang Yi’s first system employee. After being recognized as his mother’s goddaughter, she becomes Zhang Yi’s adoptive younger sister. 5 13
• Zhu Gang — Owner of a neighboring auto-repair business and an early customer. His orders help establish Zhang Yi’s workshop, and their relationship develops into business mentorship and cooperation. 6 14 33
• Zhang Yingying — Patent Office employee who assists with Zhang Yi’s early patent applications. They become friendly and address each other informally, but Zhang Yi later ends contact after accepting his feelings for Huang Xiru. 19 153
• Uncle Zhang — Factory gatekeeper, village elder, and Great Hua Empire Special-Class Combat Hero. He protects the factory from official harassment and repeatedly reminds Zhang Yi of his duty to the country. 49 89
• Zhang Yang — Veteran lathe operator appointed Deputy Director of the First Workshop. He later becomes general manager of the group’s shipyard operations. 33 505
• Huang Xiru’s grandfather — A lieutenant general who eventually approves of Zhang Yi’s relationship with Huang Xiru and encourages him to expand Seven Color Stone Group. 189

Major Arcs

Arc	Chapter(s)	Developments
Return to Xian County	1 2	Leaves Hang City after Zhang Ming’s accident and takes responsibility for the family mechanical workshop.
First Scholar Hiring	4 5 6	Uses the Scholar Hiring System to hire Xiao Hua, allowing the workshop to handle complex precision work.
Factory Expansion	13 31 33	Secures patents, opens a larger factory, recruits workers, and begins delegating production as Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory grows.
Technological Diversification	50 77 123 161	Develops special glass and large telescopes, establishes high-precision bearing production, and enters the ultra-heavy CNC-machine-tool field.
Seven Color Stone Group	149 159 173 190	Oversees flying-car development, appoints Huang Xiru as general manager, builds a supercomputer, and creates Xiao Qi.
Security and Retaliation	253 254 256 257	Survives an attempted kidnapping over battery technology, hires professional combat personnel, and retaliates against hostile organizations.
Aerospace Advancement	338 356 377 393	Leads development and testing of advanced aero engines and spaceplanes, working increasingly closely with the Great Hua Empire’s military and aerospace institutions.
Space Defense and Federation Era	505 601 615	Expands cosmic-battleship production, becomes Five-Star Marshal of the Earth Federation, and helps direct large-scale projects such as Venus transformation.