To this day, the situation can be described as thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river.
The descendants of the Five Great Merchants have become extremely wealthy through relentless exploitation and plundering;
The descendants of the Li Family, however, have failed to produce commercial geniuses, and when Li Dehai took over, he became increasingly restless, always dreaming of accomplishing an immortal legacy, hoping to restore the family's glory.
Thus, he intensified his investments and failed repeatedly, causing the vast family business to rely on the Firestone mine to maintain its operations within just over a century.
Yet, Li Dehai's ancestors had sworn a fierce oath: to maintain a lifelong alliance with the descendants of the Five Great Merchants, to advance and retreat together, and to never stir discord with unscrupulous tactics, nor to covet the Firestone mine.
