This book takes the story of the development of a business family as the main line, depicting the Chi family's management of the Lao Ma Hao, the life choices of several generations of the family in the changing historical background, the storms of the late Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai, the direct warlord Cao Kun, the puppet army, the national army, and the guerrillas. Each vivid historical picture shows the century-old history of Baoding.
