The 1980s: Fake Student Exile, An Unorthodox Way to Serve the Nation

In the 1980s: a fake overseas student using an alternate path to serve the country.

Xu Zhiyuan from the twenty-first century was hit by a truck and sent straight back to the 1980s, becoming an overseas student studying in the United States.

Scholar Xu Zhiyuan’s major was mechanical engineering, exactly the kind of engineer China needed most.

A soul replacement: a slacker, poor student replaced a top student. A third-rate loafer really could not understand those technical terms. He could not even fake it. In truth, Xu Zhiyuan only muddled through with a jack-of-all-trades finance major.

Crying, Xu Zhiyuan called the old principal: “I’ve failed the country’s upbringing. I haven’t learned a thing.”

The old principal was startled and quickly thought it through. He felt Xu Zhiyuan probably could not accept the foreign training method. That was fine; he knew this student had both good moral character and academic performance, so he could return home for further cultivation.

But Xu Zhiyuan did not give the old principal a chance to react and said bluntly, “Since what’s needed is knowledge, then whether that advanced knowledge is in anyone’s head shouldn’t matter, right?”

The old principal: for some reason, this feels like it’s going off course.

Half a month later, the domestic schools received an engineer who had been ostracized overseas.

One month later, a veteran pilot was hired by a domestic airline.

Three months later, another professor was sent over...

It is said that later on, whenever the country lacked talent, it would place an order. Of course, as for the commission taken along the way, that need not be mentioned.

The main reason is that Xu Zhiyuan is too wild, making money in finance and then taking wave after wave of talent with him. This is the off-the-beaten-path way of gathering talent.