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1960 Famine: I Bound a Business Empire System

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In the 1960 famine, rural youth Chen Jianguo watched his parents coughing blood and his sister fainting from hunger, so desperate he almost hit the wall—only to bind the "Business Empire System" in despair! The first benefit: two bags of flour and ten jin of brown sugar, which saved his sister. Even better, the "time-space acceleration" perk: turning modern business logic into "tangible futures" (e.g., letting the village chief see his field full of greenhouse vegetables with a button press). But the system’s rule is harsh: every ability use needs villagers’ "sincere approval," or supplies vanish. The village secretary calls him a "profiteer," a neighboring ruffian blocks his door with a hoe to rob grain, and even his mother cries: "We’d rather starve than do wrong!" Chen uses the system’s "cooperative model" to grow tobacco for relief grain, while secretly using time-space acceleration to help an old doctor find a lost asthma recipe—he never wants a "business empire," just hot porridge for his parents and no more bark-eating for kids. But when the village finally smells rice, the system pops a final mission: "Replicate your model in 3 famine counties in 12 months." At that moment, the county revolutionary committee’s bicycle bells ring at the village entrance…

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