Empire of Silver (2009) on Netflix
NR20091h 53mBiographyDramaFamilyHistoryRomance
In 1899, Lord Kang grooms his reluctant third son to lead the family banking empire. The son questions his father's methods and loves the woman his father married, once his English teacher.
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Plot summary
China, 1899. In Shanxi, the financial center of the Qing dynasty, the Kang family runs a banking empire. Lord Kang must choose which of his three sons will succeed him, and the choice falls on Third Master, a carefree young man who wants no part of the business. Under his father's stern pressure he agrees to be groomed as an heir. Lord Kang wants his son to become a ruthless businessman like himself, and to put an unscrupulous manager ahead of an honest one. Third Master doubts his father's ethics. He also loves Madame Kang, his stepmother, who was his English teacher before she married Lord Kang. War and the coming shift from silver to paper money press on the family.
Cast
- Zhen Yu Leias Manager Dai
- Heizias Second Master
