When Sun Maocai and Qiao Zhiyong first met, they were both down and out. Qiao Zhiyong has just taken over the dying jstars, and he is a poor scholar selling peanuts.
But they are like-minded in their careers, and together they saved the business of the Qiao family and reached the peak of their career. However, in the later period, Sun Maocai gradually satisfied with pleasure. First, it violated the regulations that the jstars were forbidden to go in and out of dusty places, and then it embezzled the wages of tea farmers.
More and more desire actually wants to unite Joe's grandmother's family to take Joe's industry away from Qiao Zhiyong. After that, it was revealed that he was kicked out of Joe's house.
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"Qiao Family Courtyard" mainly tells the story of Joe, the owner of the Qiao family, who died of depression due to business failure during the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty. Many businessmen who had cooperated with the Qiao family took advantage of people's crisis and came to collect debts one after another. The jstars have entered do or die.
Mrs. Joe's first wife was helpless, so she had to recall Qiao Zhiyong, the second young master of the Qiao family who was preparing for the imperial examination, and asked him to help Joe turn the tables and marry a rich girl.
The second young master has a lover at this time, and he is unwilling to go home to get married, and even more unwilling to give up the imperial examination, but he can only compromise for the fate of the whole family.
With the help of Sun Maocai, an old scholar he used to know, and many relatives and friends, Qiao Zhiyong gradually stabilized the jstars and turned them into friends. His frankness also touched many people and welcomed many partners for the jstars.
At the same time, his feelings with his wife gradually warmed up, which caused his first love Jiang's dissatisfaction.
Later, Jiang discovered Qiao Zhiyong's association with Taiping rebels and put him in prison. Qiao Zhiyong was depressed for ten years, and then he went to prison for being framed by Sun Maocai. Only when he helped Empress Dowager Cixi escape did the business of the Qiao family improve. After that, the business of jstars grew, and Qiao Zhiyong met Jiang Xiao in his later years.