The Flames of War Engulf the Golden House: the Prosperity of Wealthy Businessmen Finally Becomes a Dream

From a poor boy carrying silkworm cocoons on his shoulders to a wealthy businessman in charge of the lifeblood of Jiangnan, Liu Yanqing's half-life is a legend of troubled times written with blood, tears and silver. In the late Qing Dynasty, foreign companies lowered prices, and silkworm farmers suffered. He took a desperate risk and opened up a smuggling operation with the Cao Gang, but on the night when the fleet left port, he saw his wife coughing up blood and staining the account book red: "Don't just focus on the money on the scale..." The ladder of wealth is based on the death of a close relative. Warlords separatist rule, bank runs are like landslides. He smelted ancestral official silver in the street, and the flames devoured the wealth, in exchange for temporary peace of mind. The eldest son returned from studying abroad and denounced the family business as sucking blood; the second son was trapped in the quagmire of opium. In her twilight years, the new woman Su Yingqiu shines like a star, but it attracts rumors that "the old tree is blooming". The family and the country are divided, and the friendship is difficult to maintain. The iron hooves of the Northern Expedition trampled through the south of the Yangtze River, and millions of soldiers' pay was like a sharp knife hanging from the neck. In order to protect the factory workers and protect what was in his heart, he spent all the wealth he had accumulated throughout his life and died together! In the forty years of ups and downs in the business world, he rubbed the old scale that he started with a pole. The dusk was dim, the decline of an empire, the fall of a wealthy businessman, a long and sad song of wealth and humanity. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.