Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Story of the Chaebol

(brain storage)

(This book is a fictional story about a parallel universe. All characters and scenes involved in the book are fictional. Please do not take it personally.)

(Because a lot of information cannot be found, some of the data in the book may be inaccurate, please forgive me.)

The second year of the Republic of China, April 1913.

Blue Star, Dragon Kingdom, Magic City, The Bund.

"Sir, sir, are you all right?"

"Wow~~Where is this?"

After rubbing his head, Sun Tong opened his eyes and checked the situation around him.

The first thing that caught his eyes was a little girl in tattered clothes. Smelling the foul stench coming from the girl from time to time, Sun Tong subconsciously wanted to avoid her, but at this moment his body seemed not to be his and he could not move at all.

As long as he exerted a little force, he would feel unbearable pain all over his body.

"Sir, this is the Bund."

"The Bund?"

"Then who are you?"

"My name is Su Xiaoting. I just saw you lying on the side of the road, so I came to see if you need help."

The little girl only introduced her name but didn't say anything else.

Obviously there is nothing much to say. Looking at the child's appearance, you can tell that she is most likely a little beggar.

In fact, it is not easy to tell whether the child is a boy or a girl just by looking at the appearance.

Sun Tong also made his judgment based on the other person's hairstyle and voice.

After a quick observation of the surroundings, Sun Tong was basically certain that he had really traveled through time.

In this way, the preparations he made in the previous two days were not wasted.

However, if he wants to settle down in this world, he still needs to do a lot of things.

"What year is it?"

"This year is the second year of the Republic of China."

"Can I ask you a favor?"

"What's the deal?"

"I'll give you a dollar, can you help me buy some food?"

"If you just buy some food, it won't cost that much."

"It's okay. The remaining money will be considered as your errand fee. It's considered as a thank you fee for your help."

"Well...well then...I'll go buy food for Mr. right now."

Sun Tong used all his strength to pretend to take out a dollar from his pocket and gave it to the little girl.

Then his hands fell limply on his body.

"go quickly."

"Ah."

After taking the money, the little girl hurried away.

Watching the little girl walk away, Sun Tong silently observed the portable space that accompanied him into this world.

This space now contains his life and property.

In fact, two days ago, Sun Tong already knew that he was about to travel through time.

As a fan of online novels, he has a high acceptance of time travel after reading a lot of books.

After learning that the world he was going to travel to was a parallel world of the Republic of China period, he had been making preparations before the time travel.

The portable space on his body is about the size of a football field. With such a large space, it can hold a lot of things.

However, his wealth was limited. Apart from buying books and printing various materials, the money he had in savings plus various small loans was no more than 300,000 yuan.

In order to make better use of this money, he divided it into three parts from the beginning.

He used the first part to buy silver. He bought a total of 45 kilograms of silver with the yuan. After purchasing the silver, he took advantage of his work and used the equipment in his unit to make the silver into silver dollars.

Although there were many types of silver dollars during the Republic of China period, only a few were commonly used, so when he made them, he basically made these types of silver dollars that were common on the market.

The difficulty of making silver dollars is not high in itself, and other materials are mixed in it, so in the end he made a total of 1,100 silver dollars with his 45 kilograms of silver.

According to the identification method he found on the Internet, he also tested the quality of his silver dollars himself, and finally confirmed that the silver dollars he made were so real that they could be mistaken for the real ones.

In addition to making silver dollars, it is also necessary to prepare some foreign currencies of this era.

If Sun Tong wanted to get coins from the Republic of China period, he didn't need to look for anyone else, because their company was engaged in prop manufacturing.

Many film and television crews use these early coins, so their company has ready-made manufacturing equipment.

At the beginning, Sun Tong was even so unscrupulous that he wanted to take away the equipment and all the raw materials.

But after some consideration, I gave up.

It’s not because of anything else, but mainly because the equipment itself is not very advanced, and he can buy one from his acquaintances. The price of the whole set of equipment is estimated to be only about 18,000 yuan.

On the contrary, raw materials were more difficult to get, and their company still had some inventory. Sun Tong did not waste these things. In addition to speeding up the production of a batch of "counterfeit money" as a backup, he put all the other materials into his personal space.

The 'counterfeit money' he made this time is nothing in modern times, but if it were put in the Republic of China, it would be equivalent to real money. With his current 'wealth', he would be a wealthy man by the time the Republic of China comes!

Since he did not spend his own money on making the "counterfeit currency", he used the second fund to purchase a set of second-hand printing equipment and spare parts, and used the rest of the money to buy raw materials from his peers.

What Sun Tong cares most about here is actually the formula of paper needed to make counterfeit money. The technological content of currencies of various countries during the Republic of China period was just so-so, but there were still certain differences in the formulas of paper used in currencies of various countries, so it was not so easy to collect all these formulas.

After all, what Sun Tong wants to produce in the future is not just the US dollar and the British pound, he also doesn't plan to let go of the Japanese yen, franc and so on.

Fortunately, he collected enough technologies this time, even including the formulas of all the paper used for banknotes in various countries in the 1950s and 1960s.

It took Sun Tong a whole day just to complete the first two things.

The next morning, Sun Tong first called his boss to resign.

Then he took the last hundred thousand yuan and started buying the final things he needed.

First of all, let’s talk about watches. After reading so many novels, everyone knows that watches produced by modern industry would be hard currency in the Republic of China period, so how could Sun Tong not prepare more watches?

After contacting a familiar buddy, Sun Tong directly bought goods worth 20,000 yuan from him. He thought that with so many watches, they would definitely be enough for him to use in the Republic of China.

After buying the watch, he also bought himself a few sets of clothes in the style of the Republic of China. Since the materials used were not good, these clothes only cost a few hundred yuan in total.

In addition, Sun Tong also contacted an acquaintance to buy moissanite worth more than 20,000 yuan.

The so-called moissanite is actually what people call artificial diamond. This thing is not valuable in this era, but if it was placed in the Republic of China period, this moissanite would be the top-level gem.

This time, Sun Tong not only bought diamonds, but also other items like sapphires, rubies, emeralds, etc. They were not worth much anyway, so it would be better to buy more just in case.

After buying the gems, the next thing is medicine.

Although Sun Tong had never seen what life was like during the Republic of China period, he could imagine it from the information he had learned before.

For the sake of his own life, all kinds of medicines are indispensable, especially anti-inflammatory drugs. Sun Tong prepared a large amount of them.

At first, he wanted to purchase more drugs such as penicillin, but in this day and age, it is not so easy to buy penicillin in large quantities.

So he just asked an acquaintance to buy some for backup and no longer insisted on buying in large quantities.

However, not being able to buy it did not mean that he could not collect various technical information about penicillin.

After all, it is something that can make a lot of money. In the Republic of China, he might rely on this thing to make a fortune.

Therefore, he printed out all the technical information that could be collected on the market.