472 is not that bad

Guo Cheng was a businessman, a businessman from Zheng Country.

He used to deal in cloth, owning his own workshop and also acquiring finished products from other workshops to sell, gaining a modest reputation in many places.

With the unfolding of Zheng Country's Westernization Movement, he too set his heart on it and, through connections, purchased a batch of equipment from Dongwan Island; riding the wave of the Westernization Movement, he began Guo's Textile Factory.

At the factory's most glorious time, it had over 1,300 workers, making it the largest textile factory in the entire territory of Zheng Country.

However, with the outbreak of war, his factory was forcibly requisitioned by Zheng Tong, and even sustained damage; it never returned to its pre-war production capacity by the time the war ended.

Having had much of his property snatched away, Guo Cheng fell into decline; he spent his days in a drunken stupor, no longer possessing the proud vitality of his earlier years.