Silver Valley Cang Yan Lu

"Yingu Cangyan Lu" takes the rise and fall of the ancient Ma family over the past century as the main line. Through the business process of Ma Guanghui, the founder of the Ma family, and his four generations of descendants, it shows the persistence and transformation of the Shanxi merchants in the torrent of the times. The story begins when Ma Guanghui founded the "Yichengyong" business from scratch during the Jiaqing period. It goes through the heyday of Daoguang, the turmoil of Xianfeng, the expansion of Tongzhi, and its decline during the wars of the Republic of China. It not only involves the exciting game of business strategy, but also the inheritance disputes within the family, and is interspersed with the unique spirit of integrity and feelings of family and country unique to Shanxi merchants. When the last generation leader, Ma Xizuo, vowed to protect the company's account books to the death when the Japanese invaded China, this merchant family that once dominated Shanxi finally continued the ancestral motto of "benevolence and righteousness" in another way.