Born into a down-and-out scholar's family in Baning Prefecture, he was a junior worker in the tung oil workshop of the "Xinglong" trading company, Ban[Expand All]
Born into a down-and-out scholar's family in Baning Prefecture, he was a junior worker in the tung oil workshop of the "Xinglong" trading company, Baning. During his time working in the oil workshop, he not only developed a strong body but also experienced the five flavors of life. Therefore, he became upright, quick-witted, and chivalrous. Later, he entered the business world and became the first household in Baning. Throughout his life, he was entangled in a love story full of twists and turns, joys and sorrows, with his childhood sweetheart, the farm girl Tonghua, the daughter of Uncle Pao, Yuxiang, and the well-read and sensible "Xinglong" assistant, Miss Qinglian. In the end, Tonghua, in order to save him, was willing to betray her husband, which led to her mental disorder... ; Yuxiang, in an attempt to keep up with her husband's pace, ended up shooting herself in the foot. To make her husband remember her for life and death, she eventually died together with her husband's enemies... ; Miss Qinglian still couldn't escape the mercy of fate and eventually had to leave the person she loved and go far away to a foreign land... During his decades-long business career, these women all showed him boundless tenderness and saved him from desperate situations several times. For the survival and development of the "Xinglong" business that had lasted for hundreds of years, he missed love time and again and chose business warfare. Facing the national crisis, he resolutely burned or even destroyed the "Xinglong" that he had devoted his entire life to. He rose from a humble servant in tung oil to a seasoned businessman, playing with foreign firms and local merchants at his fingertips, navigating among high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants, engaging in open and covert struggles, a life and death struggle without gunsmoke, of all kinds and in all kinds, gains and losses... The past is too painful to recall...[Collapse]
