Chapter: 1822

In recent decades, the Su family and the Ye family have been vying with each other, originally taking a beating under Ye Changqing's sniping, but after Ye Changqing passed away at a young age, the Su family quickly gained an upper hand and became the number one family in the nation.

The patriarch of the Su family is known as Su Chengfeng, named after Su Shi's famous poem "Looking West from Wind Pavilion".

As it is said:

Viewed from afar, the peaks are different, high or low.

I don't know the true face of Lu Mountain, only because I am standing on this mountain.

Su Chengfeng got his name from here.

Su Chengfeng is now 76 years old. Although he's not extremely old, he's no longer in his prime either.

According to reason, his life has already been considered a great accomplishment, but he still isn't satisfied.

He hopes to lay a solid foundation for the Su family before he retires, at least achieving his long-held wish of "1 greater than 23".

Since ancient times, no one has been able to truly dominate an industry and be the only one.

This so-called "1 greater than 23" refers to: being ranked number one in overall strength, surpassing the combined strength of those ranked second and third.

In other words, Su's family comprehensive strength should exceed that of the Ye and Gu families together.

Only then can Su's family truly achieve a carefree state.

Currently, the gap between Su's family and the Ye family is indeed widening. However, to truly achieve "1 greater than 23", they still lack at least tens of billions in asset scale.

Therefore, Su's family is actively seeking breakthroughs overseas, hoping to achieve this grand ambition in one go.

As long as this goal is achieved, Yanjing will no longer have the concept of three great families, replaced by a new order where Su's family looks down on others.

So, Su Chengfeng attaches great importance to this shipping business.

Hearing that Old Master valued overseas shipping, one of Su's descendants couldn't help but display his concerns in front of Old Master: "Grandfather, I think it's not a good idea to rely too heavily on overseas shipping. The current global economic development has encountered significant obstacles, and international trade has shrunk greatly. It's hard to predict when foreign trade will fully recover, so there are still great risks involved. We might end up getting stuck in the middle of nowhere. I urge you to reconsider your decision!"

"What?" Old Master sneered coldly without paying attention to him, instead looking at the middle-aged man beside him and scolding him sternly: "Old Fifth, is this how you educate your children? Your kids are still growing up, and yet you dare to question my decision here. Do I look like Confucius or Laozi, who can still eat rice even after death?"

The one called Old Five was actually Su's fifth son, Su Shou Xin.

Su family this generation has five sons and two daughters.

These seven children have names with the character "guard" () in the middle, and the last seven characters, from big to small, are Dao (), De (), Ren (), Yi (), Li (), Zhi (), and Xin (). These seven characters are actually the levels of morality mentioned in Laozi's Tao Te Ching.

Su Shou Xin is Old Master's fifth son and also the youngest of the seven children.

The young man who just spoke up was actually Su Shi's youngest son, Su Zhi Yuan.

Su Zhi Yuan is now only 18 years old and is considered a prodigy in his studies. He got into Harvard University in the United States last year based on his own abilities. JrNovels.com