In the troubled times of the late Qing Dynasty, foreign merchants monopolized the market, traitors were in power, and the people were oppressed by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes so that the people could not even have a full meal!
Su Zhenbang, the young shopkeeper of the Su family in Wuxi, was ordered to take over his father's small mill when he was in danger. He followed the family motto of "Being a good man first when doing business, and observing righteousness before doing anything."
Foreign businessmen join forces to suppress? He backhandedly produced cheap flour, overthrew the foreigners' monopoly, and became the food king of Jiangnan in one battle!
Traitor brothers plotting against each other? He will cut off the evil hands and cut off the evil hands. He will never tolerate those who betray the country and seek glory!
Did the Japanese invaders crush the mountains and rivers with their iron hoofs? He blew up all his own factories without benefiting the enemy, destroyed his family and donated all his property to support the anti-Japanese war and national salvation!
With a lancet, Taihu heroine Shen Qingshuang protected him for sixty years;
A flour mill, he spent his whole life practicing industry to rejuvenate the country, guarding the people's jobs and the bottom line of the country.
From a small mill by Taihu Lake to supporting half of China's national industry;
From the long night of national humiliation to the flying red flag at the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China.
Three generations of the Su family would rather die standing than live on their knees. They would rather destroy their families and save their lives than be slaves to the country's subjugation!
This is a passionate legend about a righteous businessman from the south of the Yangtze River who saved the country with business and defended the family with righteousness in a hundred years of troubled times!
